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From: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Subject: Re: Upcoming sparse release RC5
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 20:18:31 -0400
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To: Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>, Linux-Sparse <linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org>

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:10 AM, Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I think that compile error should not be possible? Because before you
> merge any patch presumably you build Sparse and run the tests?
>
> As for other changes that were later removed - in my view this is
> valuable history as it tells people what was tried and discarded and
> why. I still feel all history is good.
>

OK. I think my obsession of "clean up the history" is wrong and not  worthy
doing. Linus's criticism of sparse-next rebase is correct.  I will just got back
to the master doing the normal git pull and merges. That actually simplify
my own work flow as we.

Chris