Re: Revert "[POWERPC] <various>"

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 20:58:07 EST


On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:56:05 +0100 Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The reverts themselves are not the real problem, a git bisect could occur
> between the commit adding it and the one that reverts it. If that commit
> introduced a bug then surely it would be better to avoid releasing it
> elsewhere even if it will be reverted in the same batch.

At least one of the reverts was just because the original commit clashed
with a commit in a different tree (netdev) so that will not cause and
build or runtime problems.

> Of course, this is probably difficult to do with git and impossible if
> someone has cloned the bad commit already and tries to pull :/

Not impossible, but it rebases the tree which means that people who have
pulled the tree need to force their next updates.

> Is it possible to mass copy all the good commits to create a clean branch?

It is, but in this case was probably not worth it.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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