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SubjectRe: Git training wheels for the pimple faced maintainer
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:26:49 +0200
Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Just send me the url&branch-name for a tree which you want included in -mm.
> > I typically pull all the trees once per day. I usually won't even look at
> > the contents of what I pulled from you unless it breaks.
> >
> > IOW, -mm is like a tree to which 70-odd people have commit permissions,
> > except it's 70 separate trees and I independently jam them all into one
> > tree daily.
> >
>
> So, in other words, you have no issues with a lot of merges in the
> branch you're pulling from? Do you do a fresh pull each time or do you
> update an existing copy? If you do the latter, then I assume it is
> critical that my "for-andrew" branch has a continous history? (Which it
> won't naturally have as the changes will be replaced by identical
> changes coming from Linus' tree)
>

I don't care what the history is. I fetch the whole thing then generate
(you - linus) as a single unified diff then whack it into the patch pile.

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