Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Apr 2005 19:52:06 +0200 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Kernel SCM saga.. |
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On Apr 7, 2005 7:10 PM, Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:32:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Also, there's actually a second reason why I've decided that cherry- > > picking is wrong, and it's non-technical. > > > > The thing is, cherry-picking very much implies that the people "up" the > > foodchain end up editing the work of the people "below" them. The whole > > reason you want cherry-picking is that you want to fix up somebody elses > > mistakes, ie something you disagree with. > > No. There's another reason - when you are cherry-picking and reordering > *your* *own* *patches*. That's what I had been unable to explain to > Larry and that's what made BK unusable for me.
Yep, I missed this in BK a lot.
There is another situation in which cherry-picking is very useful: even if you have a clean tree it still may contain bugfixes mixed with unrelated cleanups and sometimes you want to only apply bugfixes.
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