Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] to rebase or not to rebase on linux-next | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:43:24 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 15:39 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:27:04 EDT, Steven Rostedt said: > > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Don't lie about > > > getting an ack that you didn't get before you made that patch public. > > > > But how do you get your ack without making it public? > > I'm going to guess that Linus meant "causing the patch to show up in a > public git tree" - i.e. shop the patch around on lkml and similar lists a > bit and get some acked-by's to attach to it *before* it goes out in a tree > that everybody might pull from.
Yeah, I was being a little facetious there. The rest of my email I was being serious.
-- Steve
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