From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E651F4C0 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2407885AbfJQPLI (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:11:08 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:60122 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727600AbfJQPLI (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:11:08 -0400 Received: from gandalf.local.home (cpe-66-24-58-225.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.58.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 313DB20820; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:11:01 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Vegard Nossum Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , Pratyush Yadav , workflows@vger.kernel.org, Git Mailing List , LKML , Konstantin Ryabitsev , Eric Wong Subject: Re: email as a bona fide git transport Message-ID: <20191017111101.1456faaf@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <507d7293-964a-048b-2de6-98e7e7982cfb@oracle.com> References: <20191016150020.cr6jgfpd2c6fyg7t@yadavpratyush.com> <20191017131140.GG25548@mit.edu> <507d7293-964a-048b-2de6-98e7e7982cfb@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:01:33 +0200 Vegard Nossum wrote: > In your example, couldn't Darrick simply base his xfs work on the latest > xfs branch that was pulled by Linus? That should be up to date with all > things xfs without having any of the things that made Linus's tree not > work for him. Sure, but why? I thought this whole exercise is to make the process easier. This seems to be making it more complex. Now we are going to be demanding submitters to be basing their work on a specific (older) commit. I always tell people that submit to me, to base off of one of Linus's latest tags. That's what I do. -- Steve