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Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30609270105pee59188p8043dda694878e36@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:05:03 +0200 From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@...il.com> To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: x86/x86-64 merge for 2.6.19 On 9/26/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > > > out of curiosity, wouldn't be better to sync with Andrew via git? > > Why via plain patches? > > > > What am I missing? > > I think you're just missing that we've become so used to it that it's just > easier than all the alternatives. Umh.. good point ;) > Also, the way we do things with Andrew actually has a few advantages over > a straight git-to-git merge. In particular, when Andrew sends me his > current stable quilt queue, every email is also Cc'd to the people who > sent it to him originally or were otherwise involved. I forgot that Andrew is CC'ing the "author" of the patch when he sends to you the email. > So the very act of transferring the patches from one tree to another > sometimes produces an extra acknowledgement cycle, and we've had patches > that got NACK'ed at that point because it was an older version of the > patch etc. > > Now, I suspect this is more of an advantage with Andrew's tree than with > most other trees (most other trees tend to have a much stricter focus), > and perhaps equally importantly, it also wouldn't really work very well if > _everybody_ did it, so I personally believe this is one of those > situations where what's good for _one_ case may not actually be wonderful > for _all_ cases. > > I think it's worked out pretty well, no? Oh yes! I just did the mistake to think that the work flow of Andrew was similar to the one used by Andy. And that's clearly a mistake. Thanks for the clarification. Ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com http://picasaweb.google.com/paolo.ciarrocchi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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