linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/1] format-patch: add an option to record base tree info

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Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:32:21 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>,
	Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	ying.huang@...el.com, philip.li@...el.com, julie.du@...el.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/1] format-patch: add an option to record base tree
 info

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:23:19AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/23/16 01:17, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > 
> > However we are facing a new situation: in test robot POV, IMHO there
> > are values to test exactly the same tree as the patch submitter.
> > Otherwise the robot risks
> > 
> > - false negative: failing to apply and test some patches
> > - false positive: sending wrong bug reports due to guessed wrong base tree
> > 
> 
> Wouldn't the important part here be the git hash, rather than the tree?
>  If you have the same hash then it by definition is the same contents?

Yes. Sorry for the partial wording! We should be talking about the
same thing: the hash of the tree object. The commit SHA1 will also
do the work.

Thanks,
Fengguang