linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support

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Message-ID: <20110122215855.GA22255@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:58:55 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Dima Zavin <dmitriyz@...gle.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davidb@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:56:14PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> We also tell people to submit crap into tree all the time - it's
> called staging!

Which is totally unrelated to this flameware.  Also if crap goes into
staging it doesn't go with years of useless version history.

>We also merge full history from time to time like in
> the case of btrfs.

We do it something, but only for projects that actually follow the Linux
commit guidelines.  

> Usually even "shitty git trees" have value in the history for people
> who're interested why the code is the way it is. But as people who
> actually looked at the patches, it doesn't apply here.

Thomas posted how the android tree commits looks.  How about getting a
clue before posting more useless noise in this thread?

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