linux-kernel - Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

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Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:43 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 21:18 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > >  Rebases *do*not*work* (and fundamentally cannot work) in a 
> > > distributed environment.
> > Hm ... I think net is a counter example to this.  Rebases certainly work
> > for them.  The issue, I thought, was around the policy of rebasing and
> > how often.
> 
> Hmm ... as far as I can see, Jeff and John (i.e. net tree downstreams) are 
> pretty loudly unhappy with Dave rebasing too often, right?

That's true ... but irrelevant to the argument of whether rebasing does
or doesn't work.  I don't think anyone's arguing that rebasing doesn't
cause real problems to downstream users ... when I was based on block
for the scsi post merge tree, I was just such a user ...

James


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