Re: [GIT PULL] arm64: Fixes for -rc4

[Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:06:54PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 4:43 PM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Note that the workaround code ended up being based on -rc2, so I had a
> > bit of a faff trying to generate the right diffstat for this pull request
> > after merging that branch into our fixes branch based on -rc1. In the end
> > I had to emulate the pull locally because I couldn't figure out how to
> > drive request-pull correctly despite the shortlog being correct. I'd love
> > to know what I should've done instead.
> 
> You did the right thing.
> 
> When there are multiple merge bases, a regular "git diff" doesn't work
> since it's fundamentally about two end-points (well, it _can_ work
> almost by mistake, but doesn't work in the general case). So the only
> way to get a "proper" diff is to do a merge and then diff the result.
> 
> That said, I also accept the output of "git diff" which will then have
> a lot of noise from all the _other_ work done between the two merge
> bases. I can figure out what happened, and do my own two-endpoint diff
> and see what happened, and still se that "yes, that's what the pull
> request meant, and that's why the diffstat is garbage".
> 
> What you did is the "good quality" pull request, though.

Thanks, that's helpful to know for next time. I guess I'm most surprised by
the discrepancy between the shortlog and the diffstat, whereas I intuitively
expected them to be generated in the same way.

Will