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SubjectRe: [git patches] libata updates
On 07/25/2012 06:31 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Even so, separately, it still needed that post-merge compile fix.
>
> And that's yet another example of how *NOT* to do things.
>
> If the merge has errors like that, then they should be fixed up in the merge.
>
> Please. Don't do this. Let me merge stuff, and you explain in the pull
> request why it gets merge problems. Not this mess.
>
> That merge itself was *trivial*. I do those kinds of fixups in my
> sleep and you don't even need to explain those. The non-trivial part
> you did as a separate commit. But neither of those should have been
> "I'll pre-merge for Linus so that he doesn't see these problems".

What is the right course in when a post-merge change is needed?

Jeff







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