Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:25:17 -0800 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.38 | From | Tony Luck <> |
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> That said, "number of commits" is not a really meaningful measure > either. I really tend to like how the ACPI tree does things, with > separate branches for separate bugzilla entries - with nice relevant > branch naming (bug number or description) - and then merging them. At > that point you may well have a branch with just a single commit in it, > but now the extra merge actually _adds_ information and the history > looks better for it.
There are some notes on this work flow in the git sources in Documentation/user-manual.txt in the [[maintaining-topic-branches]] chapter.
-Tony
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