linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] to rebase or not to rebase on linux-next

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Message-Id: <1256599588.26028.340.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:26:28 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] to rebase or not to rebase on linux-next

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 23:59 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:54:00PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Maintainer trees pushed towards linux-next should strive to be Git 
> > based, append-mostly, 'nice', 'intended for upstream' and defendable 
> > as-is IMO, and rebasing a _maintainer tree_ should really be a rare act 
> > of last resort.
> 
> As maintainer I try to put some effort in crediting people
> where credit belongs.
> In other words collecting "Acked-by:", "Tested-by", "Reviewed-by".
> 
> Adding this require a rebase as soon as said patch hits git.

I've been saying for a while that git really needs a way to "annotate" a
commit. And have git log show those annotations by default.
Signed-off-by must be in the original commit. But Acked-by, Tested-by
and Reviewed-by almost always come after it hits some git repo.

Thus, if we could add an annotation to a commit later, that would be
very helpful. We could add these other labels on.

For Acked-by, when needed (touching a Maintainers code) I usually send
out an RFC patch set first to get these. But for Reviewed-by and
Tested-by which usually come after I have it in my git tree and I push
it off to Ingo, those come later. And unfortunately, I seldom get to add
those tags.

I think this is more of a failure in git than in the work flow we
present.

-- Steve

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