linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

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Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:32:41 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, gregkh@...e.de, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:13:42 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > MAINTAINERS is the most frequently patched file
> 
> Almost all of them merge perfectly, with no problems what-so-ever. And the 
> merge conflicts, when they happen, are generally really trivial, and never 
> cause any subtle run-time bugs even if they were to happen.
> 
> So in that sense, I think both MAINTAINERS and the deprecation schedule 
> are totally uninteresting. Yes, they have merge conflicts. But those merge 
> conflicts are really really easy to handle.
> 

yup.  I'll often get conflicts and rejects in those files from the git
trees which I don't even bother fixing.
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