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From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: tools@linux.kernel.org, users@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: merging pull requests
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 14:26:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211001182615.bcyuag7vfrkzhefj@meerkat.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202109301559.A9BFB03@keescook>

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 04:09:13PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> I think so -- that seems to be sort of what Linus does? There seem to be
> a few templates (tag, branch, and "patches from Andrew"), e.g.:
> 
> Merge tag 'char-misc-5.15-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
> Merge branch 'misc.namei' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
> Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
> 
> Though I'd love to know why there's a distinction between "tag" and
> "branch" here. Are "branch" pulls not checked for signatures?

That's just what git does when you merge FETCH_HEAD. It takes the contents of
.git/FETCH_HEAD, which describe from where the last fetch happened. If you
fetch a tag, it will say:

    [tipsha]\t\ttag 'tagname' of url://of/remote/tree

if you fetch a branch, it will be

    [tipsha]\t\tbranch 'branchanme' of url://of/remote/tree

When merging FETCH_HEAD, git will just say "Merge %s" with the contents of
.git/FETCH_HEAD file for that tip.

When you merge a local branch instead of FETCH_HEAD, it will default to:

    Merge branch 'localbranchname'

I think Linus just manually adds "(patches from Andrew)" to that.

-K

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-01 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-30 17:33 merging pull requests Kees Cook
2021-09-30 20:00 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-09-30 23:09   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-30 23:22     ` Stephen Rothwell
2021-09-30 23:29       ` Kees Cook
2021-09-30 23:29     ` Stephen Rothwell
2021-09-30 23:42       ` Kees Cook
2021-10-01 11:59         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-02  0:15           ` Kees Cook
2021-10-01 17:01         ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-01 17:07         ` James Bottomley
2021-10-02  0:17           ` Kees Cook
2021-10-01 17:19         ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-10-02  2:35           ` Kees Cook
2021-09-30 23:31     ` Olof Johansson
2021-10-01  0:09       ` Kees Cook
2021-10-01  0:27         ` Olof Johansson
2021-10-01 17:05           ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-02  0:12             ` Kees Cook
2021-10-01 18:26     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2021-10-01 18:47       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-10-01 19:30         ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-10-02  0:08           ` Kees Cook
2021-10-02  6:22         ` Willy Tarreau
2021-10-02  0:11       ` Kees Cook

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