From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751462Ab2AKXWM (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:22:12 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:48151 "EHLO mail-wi0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751005Ab2AKXWI (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:22:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1326147171-13752-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <7vty438575.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <201201111812.46431.arnd@arndb.de> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:21:46 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: q8y8Y7Ea3_vzarbP7kf9QUrSSek Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 05/11] SoC-level changes for tegra and omap To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Junio C Hamano , Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Olof Johansson , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > And all of this would look nice if you would have done a rebase on top of the > latest tagged version of Linus' tree that contains all prerequisites, right? Rebasing means that nobody else can depend on or work with that tree, so it's a no-no. Sure, it works if you are the only person touching it, but then you had better not export it at all, so what's the point? We have had independent problems in another branch exactly because it was rebased and people merged it, so bringing up rebasing as a "solution" is wrong-headed. It just causes *more* problems of other kinds, even if it may make git request-pull trivial. Linus