On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I think we've settled this in one of my replies to Randy.
However, I think there's a bigger issue here.
[I'm not including all the details here about the timing - since you
know the timing of my emails to you, the only thing left out is that
Andrew told me about this problem on Sunday Morning (UK time).]
My kernel work pattern is Saturday to Monday inclusive and Thursday.
I believe yours is to avoid Saturday through into most of Monday.
This unfortunately means that we currently have almost no overlap,
and very few consecutive days where issues from the previous day
can be resolved.
In light of that, given my request on Monday not to pull my tree,
should I have deleted the for-linus head at the same time to prevent
the pull occuring if you (as has become apparant) didn't read the
message?
I rather guessed that you hadn't pulled my tree by then, but I wasn't
100% sure - sometimes you've pulled my tree but not pushed yours out
for a few days.
It's really the "not knowing" which has caused this issue - had I
known positively that you hadn't pulled my tree I could have prepared
a replacement tree with all the (now numerous) cockups fixed. Had I
known you had pulled my tree, I would've been able to queue up the
various fixes and had that branch ready to go by Monday evening.
To be really frank, I'm beginning to wonder whether using git is such
a good idea - at least if I was sending you a stream of patches then
all I'd needed to have done was forward you the relevant patches as
fixes to the previous set - and I wouldn't care whether you'd applied
the previous set at that point.
But with git, it has to be known what you're doing at your end before
I can make a decision about how to fix issues at my end.
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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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