Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Nov 12 2009 - 09:41:21 EST


On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 13:52 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > >
> > > Quite frankly, I'd much rather not run hooks on my tree directly. The less
> > > that can possibly get screwed up with my kernel.org tree, the happier I
> > > am. So in many ways, I really prefer the whole "done separately by others"
> > > approach.
> > >
> > > But hey, send the hook to me, and I'll think about it.
> >
> > One thing we might be able to do is to create an "exploder hook" on your
> > tree - something that asynchronously broadcasts a notification that
> > anyone can subscribe to.
>
> Yeah, some minimal hook just informing any interested party about "ok,
> Linus pushed to the main tree" (and in fact, perhaps generalized so that
> you can show that you are interested in some particular branch of _any_
> tree that people can just add to their trees) certainly doesn't sound like
> a bad idea.
>
> That way we can get rid of "polling by cron", without having to have the
> tree owners themselves care about who is interested in exactly what..

Sure, I'd like to hook into this rather than use a polling cron job.

James


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