From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D05341423 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2018 19:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5846E810 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2018 19:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 21:25:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: James Bottomley In-Reply-To: <1536165914.3627.17.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Message-ID: References: <1536142432.8121.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20180905113715.GJ9781@sirena.org.uk> <20180905150315.GA10819@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180905115008.22e3d21f@gandalf.local.home> <20180905162007.GO4225@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1536165914.3627.17.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Distribution kernel bugzillas considered harmful List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, James Bottomley wrote: > We do this in SCSI as well, but only if the tree hasn't yet been > submitted to Linus. The technical term is folding. It's obviously > better to fix buggy commits that haven't gone upstream because it > improves bisectability. We are drifting away a bit here, but now that you have mentioned it, let me add a datapoint to this -- it's actually causing issues to our workflow, as we have scsi.git as one of the upstreams [1], and when you rebase, it blows up our git workflow and we have to fixup things manually. So if you are aware of your tree having downstreams, and care about not breaking them and want to be nice to them, you shouldn't rebase that tree [2]. [1] there are some funny technical details, but in basic principle it's exactly like that [2] https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/git_rebase.html Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs