linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Thermal-SoC management fixes for v5.0-rc6

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Message-ID: <20190211231016.GA2937@chatter.qube.local>
Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:10:16 -0500
From:   Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>, pr-tracker-bot@...nel.org,
        Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Thermal-SoC management fixes for v5.0-rc6

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 02:04:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Okay, so I need guidance on the proper behaviour here. As this 
>> request
>> didn't use the magic wording for the commit-id (as generated by
>> git-request-pull), we ended up trying to look up the remote. The remote
>> specified was:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal fixes
>>
>> Since it's a short refname, we first try to look it up as a tag:
>
>No, you don't do even that.
>
>The name is "fixes". But you seem to match it with one of these:
>
>> $ git ls-remote git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal fixes^{}
>> a6d25f4c951b8b28f2eaec6f891ff834622532f2        refs/tags/omap-for-v3.10-rc1/fixes^{}
>> 77319669af37a1cfc844b801e83343b37e3c7e13        refs/tags/omap/fixes^{}
>
>*NEITHER* of which is a tag named "fixes". One is named
>"omap-for-v3.10-rc1/fixes" and the other is a tag named "omap/fixes".

Linus:

Thank you for the feedback. I've implemented a fix that handles 
shortname refs more properly in order to avoid hitting this problem 
again.

Regards,
-K