Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:27:48 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: If you want me to quit I will quit |
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:20:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:16:04 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:44:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >... > > > git-tree owners might need, umm, some encouragement here. It's much easier > > > for them to slap the oh-let's-fix-that-up commit at the tail of their > > > queue, which leaves us with the straggly commit record. > > > > As far as I understand Linus on these matters people David Miller > > mustn't edit older commits in their trees once their tree got pushed > > out. > > I expect that means "don't alter stuff after you've sent the pull request". > That'd be fairly dumb. > > But during the two-month -rcX timeframe the patches in the git and quilt > trees get altered, dropped, reordered regularly. Some of the git trees > don't really exist, I believe - their owners assemble them from a > quilt-based master tree for external sharing only.
As far as I understand it, changes in Daves tree would cause problems for people like Jeff Garzik and John Linville who themselves base their work on Daves tree during the two-month -rcX timeframe.
cu Adrian
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