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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:40:23 +1000
From: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Oh well. Water under the bridge. I think I'll try --no-ff this once,
>> despite my misgivings about the concept.
>
> Oh wow. That really does end up looking odd. I know some other git
> projects use --no-ff, but I don't think we've ever had them in the
> kernel, and I've never see the graph look like that before.
>
> But it did allow me to add an explanation for what happened, so maybe
> it's worth it.
I didn't realise we weren't meant to --no-ff, I've been lately using
--no-ff --log
so I can keep track of what I merged easier, when someone bases something on my
tree and I haven't moved it in a while.
Though I suppose author/committer info should tell me this I've found
having the logs
at least a bit useful.
Dave.
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