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SubjectRe: If you want me to quit I will quit
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
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/


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