Re: If you want me to quit I will quit

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:20:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:16:04 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:44:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >...
> > > git-tree owners might need, umm, some encouragement here.  It's much easier
> > > for them to slap the oh-let's-fix-that-up commit at the tail of their
> > > queue, which leaves us with the straggly commit record.
> > 
> > As far as I understand Linus on these matters people David Miller 
> > mustn't edit older commits in their trees once their tree got pushed 
> > out.
> 
> I expect that means "don't alter stuff after you've sent the pull request".
> That'd be fairly dumb.
> 
> But during the two-month -rcX timeframe the patches in the git and quilt
> trees get altered, dropped, reordered regularly.  Some of the git trees
> don't really exist, I believe - their owners assemble them from a
> quilt-based master tree for external sharing only.

As far as I understand it, changes in Daves tree would cause problems 
for people like Jeff Garzik and John Linville who themselves base their 
work on Daves tree during the two-month -rcX timeframe.

cu
Adrian

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