Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.38

[Tony Luck]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That said, "number of commits" is not a really meaningful measure
> either. I really tend to like how the ACPI tree does things, with
> separate branches for separate bugzilla entries - with nice relevant
> branch naming (bug number or description) - and then merging them. At
> that point you may well have a branch with just a single commit in it,
> but now the extra merge actually _adds_ information and the history
> looks better for it.

There are some notes on this work flow in the git sources in
Documentation/user-manual.txt in the [[maintaining-topic-branches]]
chapter.

-Tony
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