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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:09:02 +0800
From: Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org, vapier@...too.org,
sonic.zhang@...log.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Blackfin changes for 3.6-rc1
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:54:40PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote:
>>
>> This is the new pull request about blackfin changes for 3.6-rc1.
>> I've rebased my tree to 3.5.
>
> To save Linus having to send you a chastising e-mail (and because I'll
> probably be more gentle about it than he would be :-), in general it's
> good not to rebase your the tree before submitting to Linus. If you
> tested with your set of commits pon top of 3.5-rc3, then submit those
> patches that way. Rebasing at least partially invalidates your
> testing, and causes other problems if someone else has based their
> tree off of yours.
>
> If the goal is to avoid merge conflicts, it's better to just resolve
> the conflict, and push the proposed merge resolution, and send Linus
> both the commit pre-merge, and post-merge, and let him decide if wants
> to use your merge resolution, or to fix things up in a slightly
> different way.
>
Got it, thanks a lot for your kindly explanation.
--
Regards,
--Bob
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