linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] target: Updates for v3.2-rc1 (round one)

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFzUtu5jVt6XcP+cqLWSK1u+zbuJuWCJU0OhW2XVavv3VA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:44:20 +0200
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
Cc:	target-devel <target-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] target: Updates for v3.2-rc1 (round one)

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hmm. This is not what I get. It might be a git version issue or diff
> algorithm one - although that's actually pretty unusual. Do you do
> something odd/special?

Another question: you picked a very particular and odd place to start
development. It's commit 65112dccf8a ("Merge
git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6") which just *seems* to be some
"random Linux tree kernel of the day". I'm not seeing why you picked
that one.

This is not a deal-breaker, and *please* don't use this as an argument
for rebasing (quite the opposite), but it's basically a note to ask
you to just pick a better starting point next time. It's usually much
better to start from an actual release (preferably a *real* release,
like 3.0) than from a "random daily tree". Of course, using an -rc1
release is usually a really bad idea also, but in the rough timeframe
we're talking about (October 10 - two weeks ago - that's apparently
when you started worrying about this next merge window) you could have
at least picked something like -rc9 as the base.

So basically, I'm asking that people not rebase, but also spend a bit
of time thinking about "where should I start development".

                      Linus
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