On 2023-11-24 08:20, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, Luben Tuikov wrote: >> On 2023-11-22 07:00, Maxime Ripard wrote: >>> Hi Luben, >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 09:27:58AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: >>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 09:11:43AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 06:46:21PM -0500, Luben Tuikov wrote: >>>>>> On 2023-11-13 22:08, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >>>>>>> BTW, cherry picking commits does not avoid conflicts - in fact it can >>>>>>> cause conflicts if there are further changes to the files affected by >>>>>>> the cherry picked commit in either the tree/branch the commit was >>>>>>> cheery picked from or the destination tree/branch (I have to deal with >>>>>>> these all the time when merging the drm trees in linux-next). Much >>>>>>> better is to cross merge the branches so that the patch only appears >>>>>>> once or have a shared branches that are merged by any other branch that >>>>>>> needs the changes. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I understand that things are not done like this in the drm trees :-( >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Stephen, >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you for the clarification--understood. I'll be more careful in the future. >>>>>> Thanks again! :-) >>>>> >>>>> In this case, the best thing to do would indeed have been to ask the >>>>> drm-misc maintainers to merge drm-misc-fixes into drm-misc-next. >>>>> >>>>> We're doing that all the time, but we're not ubiquitous so you need to >>>>> ask us :) >>>>> >>>>> Also, dim should have caught that when you pushed the branch. Did you >>>>> use it? >>>> >>>> Yeah dim must be used, exactly to avoid these issues. Both for applying >>>> patches (so not git am directly, or cherry-picking from your own >>>> development branch), and for pushing. The latter is even checked for by >>>> the server (dim sets a special push flag which is very long and contains a >>>> very clear warning if you bypass it). >>>> >>>> If dim was used, this would be a bug in the dim script that we need to >>>> fix. >>> >>> It would be very useful for you to explain what happened here so we >>> improve the tooling or doc and can try to make sure it doesn't happen >>> again >>> >>> Maxime >> >> There is no problem with the tooling--I just forced the commit in. > > Wait what? > > What do you mean by forcing the commit in? Bypass dim? > > If yes, please *never* do that when you're dealing with dim managed > branches. That's part of the deal for getting commit access, along with > following all the other maintainer tools documentation. Hi Jani, I only use dim, ever. -- Regards, Luben