linux-kernel - Re: Git training wheels for the pimple faced maintainer

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Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:35:19 -0400
From:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>
To:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git training wheels for the pimple faced maintainer

On Oct 20, 2006, at 02:26:49, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Just send me the url&branch-name for a tree which you want  
>> included in -mm.
>> I typically pull all the trees once per day.  I usually won't even  
>> look at
>> the contents of what I pulled from you unless it breaks.
>>
>> IOW, -mm is like a tree to which 70-odd people have commit  
>> permissions,
>> except it's 70 separate trees and I independently jam them all  
>> into one
>> tree daily.
>>
>
> So, in other words, you have no issues with a lot of merges in the  
> branch you're pulling from? Do you do a fresh pull each time or do  
> you update an existing copy? If you do the latter, then I assume it  
> is critical that my "for-andrew" branch has a continous history?  
> (Which it won't naturally have as the changes will be replaced by  
> identical changes coming from Linus' tree)

I seem to remember Andrew saying something like (paraphrased) "In the  
event that your tree doesn't have a continuous history for whatever  
reason, I'll just pull a fresh copy and work from there".  Given that  
he maintains -mm as a quilt patchset and only uses GIT for incoming  
pulls, I would guess that either way is probably OK, although the  
continuous history makes merging and fixing rejects mildly nicer.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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