Re: linux-next: manual merge of the v4l-dvb tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu May 13 2010 - 01:59:49 EST


Hi Mauro,

On Thu, 13 May 2010 02:18:33 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'll be pulling from Linus on my tree. I did it yesterday, after my last changes,
> but it seems that I've made a huge mistake... Several conflicts that I've already
> fixed reappeared. I suspect that I've merged it with an older temporary branch
> by mistake.

That explains it.

> Anyway, it is fixed, by simply going back to the last reflog before the error,
> and re-merging the new patches again. A pull from Linus didn't show any conflict.
>
> So, it should be now OK for you to merge.

Excellent, thanks.

> > Please consider changing your work flow so that you don't rebase things
> > in your tree before sending them to Linus.
>
> I'm already in process of changing my procedure. The problem is that I didn't find
> yet a perfect way to handle my tree. I'm getting some new ideas, and intend to implement
> them for 2.6.35 development cycle (linux-next for 2.6.36).

OK, good. The process doesn't have to be perfect ... ;-)

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Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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