linux-kernel - Re: [ GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 5.13

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Date:   Mon, 3 May 2021 16:03:35 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>,
        Cao jin <jojing64@...il.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@...il.com>,
        Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@...o.com>, Xu Wang <vulab@...as.ac.cn>,
        "Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)" <y.karadz@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [ GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 5.13

On Mon, 3 May 2021 11:27:02 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > This is the first time I'm sending a pull request with a merge
> > in it. I'm hoping my scripts did everything correctly. Might want
> > to check it a bit more than usual.  
> 
> The merge looks fine. It causes the diffstat to show incorrectly,
> which is normal (and generally avoided by you doing a test merge so
> that you get the diffstat from the merged state - but don't send the
> merge itself to me, just use it to (a) look at what conflicts there
> will be and (b) get that correct diffstat for the end result).

OK, makes sense.

> 
> That said, if the only reason for the merge was one single trivial
> commit, you could just have cherry-picked it instead, avoiding the
> things like "oh, now it has two merge bases so 'diff' no longer has an
> unambiguous result" etc.

I was thinking of doing the simple cherry-pick, but I wanted to test if
merges would work too, as I'm hoping that I can start pulling from others
someday, and not just take patches. I figured I'd try on a trivial merge
to see what breaks.

> 
> But this is fine. If you start doing a lot of merges, I may really ask
> you to then also do that test-merge for the pull request, but if it's

Good to know. If I start pulling more complex merges, I'll do the test
merge for the diffstat then.

Thanks,

-- Steve