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

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Message-ID: <22616.1256672350@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:39:10 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	rostedt@...dmis.org
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, 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>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] to rebase or not to rebase on linux-next

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:27:04 EDT, Steven Rostedt said:
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >  Don't lie about 
> > getting an ack that you didn't get before you made that patch public.
> 
> But how do you get your ack without making it public?

I'm going to guess that Linus meant "causing the patch to show up in a
public git tree" - i.e. shop the patch around on lkml and similar lists a
bit and get some acked-by's to attach to it *before* it goes out in a tree
that everybody might pull from.

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