Re: [PATCH] block: fix residual byte count handling

[Mike Galbraith]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:17 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04 2008, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 14:03 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> > > Re-read my original mail! It states that you should just pull:
> > > 
> > > git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus
> > > 
> > > into your linus branch, or just create a test branch off linus' master
> > > and pull into that. IOW, it's the for-linus branch that you should pull,
> > > nothing else.
> > 
> > Well, I had a good reason.  You know how to un-pull, I know how to
> > un-remote to get back to pristine after I'm done testing... guaranteed
> > without whimpering pathetically on the git list ;-)
> 
> OK, if you're on master, it's pretty easy:
> 
> $ git branch test-branch
> $ git checkout test-branch
> $ git pull git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus
> 
> [build, boot, test]
> $ git checkout master
> $ git branch -D test-branch

Hm, that's simple enough.  I'll do this for the edification.  Thanks.
Maybe some day, I'll cease to be so paranoid that my test setup may
become compromised.  (at which time...)

> > Anyway, I checked out the one with the big-fat-hint in it's name
> > (block-for-linus/for-linus).
> > Same error.  Git this morning with patches...
> > 	restore_meaning_of_data_len.diff
> > 	seperate_out_padding_from_alignment.diff
> > ...reverted restored me to the originally reported k3b error, nothing
> > new noted.
> > 
> > If I tested the wrong branch, whack me upside the head, and I'll follow
> > your pull destructions, and figure out how to un-pull later.
> 
> for-linus is the right branch, but I'm just a little worried that you
> didn't test what you think you tested. What does cat .git/HEAD say? If
> that is a ref to a file (eg refs/heads/master), what does that file
> contain?

That wouldn't surprise me one bit.  (ergo...)

It says cc66b4512cae8df4ed1635483210aabf7690ec27... kewpie doll?

	-Mike

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