Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:43:02 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: If you want me to quit I will quit |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Well, the need to amend single patches --- and folding the amendment in before >> mainline submission to correct important problems of the first shot --- is >> something which happens all the time. > > .. and you simply SHOULD NOT PUBLICIZE the tree before it has gotten to a > reasonable point.
I always aim for keeping the one subsystem git tree which I maintain in reasonable shape. Including its -mm and -next feeding branches.
> Keep the rough-and-not-ready thing that is being discussed as patches on > lkml as your own working tree, and just don't expose it as a public git > branch. You can't do any sane discussion over git anyway - if things are > being actively worked-on among people, you'd be passing patches around as > emails etc.
Sometimes I want problem reporters to test more than a single patch. In these cases, I refer them to patch kits and quilt queues which I maintain independently of linux1394-2.6.git; I almost never ask testers to try linux1394-2.6.git.
linux1394-2.6.git has been, and still is, first and foremost my submission branch to -mm. And I have high expectations of what I submit to -mm. But sometimes something turns out to be a bad idea after all _long after_ I and the reviewers and testers thought it would be fine.
Besides, the care that I take with my submissions to -mm also does not change the fact that I submit in different order to you than to -mm. (As mentioned, reordering could be done to some degree with a respective number of branches. I don't do it this way currently.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-- ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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