linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.38

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Message-ID: <AANLkTim29V8-w23zc=akW+F3CW-BKYR=jpWRVnr3x4E0@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:25:17 -0800
From:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.38

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> That said, "number of commits" is not a really meaningful measure
> either. I really tend to like how the ACPI tree does things, with
> separate branches for separate bugzilla entries - with nice relevant
> branch naming (bug number or description) - and then merging them. At
> that point you may well have a branch with just a single commit in it,
> but now the extra merge actually _adds_ information and the history
> looks better for it.

There are some notes on this work flow in the git sources in
Documentation/user-manual.txt in the [[maintaining-topic-branches]]
chapter.

-Tony
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