From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Linux-Next <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the kspp and kbuild trees
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:01:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57600036.8040900@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160614143203.220d0722@canb.auug.org.au>
On 2016-06-14 06:32, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:57:15 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Strange, I pulled these directly from linux-next. Michal had an
>>> auto-responder saying he was going to be out-of-office, so I wanted to
>>> make sure the !COMPILE_TEST fix got in.
>>>
>>> Sounds like I should merge the kbuild tree, rather than cherry-picking
>>> from linux-next? I will adjust.
>
> Cherry-picking produces new commits (with new SHA1s etc), while merging
> (or rebasing on top of the other versions) will have the same commits
> (not just patches).
>
> Having the same commits means that they never produce conflicts after
> further changes to the same files (unless both sides of the merge make
> further changes to the same files).
>
>> I've done this merge correctly now and pushed a forced update on the kspp tree.
>
> Thanks for that. Now you just have to hope that Michal never rebases
> that part of his tree from under you. (Michal: hint! :-))
I won't :). Kees, are you going to keep the patch in your tree and send
it to Linus once kbuild is in? Or shall I take it (which would
temporarily result in another duplication...).
Thanks,
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-14 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-13 23:40 linux-next: duplicate patches in the kspp and kbuild trees Stephen Rothwell
2016-06-13 23:53 ` Kees Cook
2016-06-13 23:57 ` Kees Cook
2016-06-14 4:32 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-06-14 13:01 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2016-06-14 14:13 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-06-14 16:39 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-26 22:19 ` Michal Marek
2016-07-26 23:09 ` Kees Cook
2016-07-27 7:52 ` Michal Marek
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