On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:39:27 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:Well someone does ;) What goes into Linus's tree is there for ever and I do think that all the short-term things we do should be built around making the permanent record as good as possible. This is a(nother) case where a toolchain/process problem is forcing us to do something which we don't want to do. In an ideal world we should tell the git developers "we want x, please" and hopefully they can give it to us. Because right now, we're having to work around shortcomings in git and we are producing a lesser product as a result of this. A tool should follow the way in which humans want to work, not vice versa. Short-term... dunno. Perhaps you could have a two-weekly broadly-announced rebase in which you integrate all these dribs and drags back into their proper place? Commit them with some well-known identifier in the title so that they can all be located when that time comes? If you announce such a rebase a day or so beforehand then all the guys who feed into you could get their stuff merged up into your tree to minimise their pain when the rebase happens, perhaps. (That being said, this particular no-compile isn't a huge problem - it can be worked around with a Kconfig change. But that isn't generally the case) --
| Greg KH | [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24 |
| Joe Perches | [PATCH 011/148] include/asm-x86/bug.h: checkpatch cleanups - formatting only |
| Greg KH | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
| Tony Lindgren | [PATCH 29/90] ARM: OMAP: Palm Tungsten|T support |
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| Jakub Narebski | Re: VCS comparison table |
| Linus Torvalds | Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins |
| Jon Smirl | ! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast forward) |
| Scott Chacon | Re: git-scm.com |
| Richard Stallman | Real men don't attack straw men |
| Christophe Rioux | OpenBSD as host for VMWare Server |
| Eduardo Meyer | OpenBGP "state change OpenSent -> Active, reason: Connection closed" trouble |
| Jerome Santos | sshd.config and AllowUsers |
| Gerrit Renker | [PATCH 27/37] dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation - part 2 (server side) |
| Jiri Olsa | [PATCH] net: fix race in the receive/select |
| Wang Chen | [PATCH]&[Question] netdevice: Use netdev_priv() |
| Willy Tarreau | Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once |
