>
> On 21-05-08 14:37, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> > At Wed, 21 May 2008 14:30:31 +0200,
> > Rene Herman wrote:
>
> >> $ git remote show sound-2.6
> >> * remote sound-2.6
> >> URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
> >> Tracked remote branches
> >> master
> >>
> >> What's the status of that one now? Should I continue pulling that one or
> >> should I switch to the new alsa-kernel GIT repo? I want to pull it into
> >> a Linus clone tree...
> >
> > We are working on this right now. alsa.git is far currently behind my
> > tree.
> >
> > One problem we hit is about multiple committers and rebase. If you do
> > git-rebase, the commiter information is touched although the sign-off
> > isn't updated. git-rebase looks apparently designed for the
> > single-commiter model.
>
> It's "worse" than that; rebasing is designed for a _private_ development
> model. git-rebase is a very handy tool for people like myself (people
> without a downstream that is) and it basically enables the quilt model
> of a stack of patches on top of git but public trees that have people
> pulling from them should generally not rebase or everyone who _is_
> pulling finds a different tree each time.
>
> Linus is vehement about this also. There have a few threads about it and
> the most recent was:
>
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/17/190
>
> I'm also not an experienced git user (not other than in my own leafnode
> developer mode, certainly) but I expect Linus might not terribly mind
> answering a few questions about the model -- ALSA is a significant
> subsystem and it switching to GIT might even make for a nice "this is
> how you do that as a subsystem" treatise...
>
> (ie, also added linux-kernel)
