Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 May 2019 15:50:50 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: GFS2: Pull Request |
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On Wed, 8 May 2019 14:05:35 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:58 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote: > > > > I think this certainly belongs in the maintainer manual, but probably not > > in pull-requests.rst. There are a lot of things about repository > > management that seem to trip up even experienced maintainers; pre-pull > > merges is just one of those. I would love to see a proper guide on when > > and how to do merges in general. > > We had another pull request issue today, about a situation that I > definitely know you've written about in the past, because I linked to > lwn in my email: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiKoePP_9CM0fn_Vv1bYom7iB5N=ULaLLz7yOST3K+k5g@mail.gmail.com/
Sigh, I never can escape my past sins...
> and while I suspect people don't actually read documentation > (_particularly_ maintainers that have already been around for a long > time but still do this), maybe that part could be in the same > documentation?
Something derived from that would make sense, yes. I'll see if I can't pull something together, unless by some delightful miracle somebody beats me to it.
jon
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