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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>,
	cluster-devel <cluster-devel@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: GFS2: Pull Request
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 14:05:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiUMj0nwj_ee59J4yLnbnR_UfMeRx4agijSc7DKJADoPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190508145818.6a53dff5@lwn.net>

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:58 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>
> I think this certainly belongs in the maintainer manual, but probably not
> in pull-requests.rst.  There are a lot of things about repository
> management that seem to trip up even experienced maintainers; pre-pull
> merges is just one of those.  I would love to see a proper guide on when
> and how to do merges in general.

We had another pull request issue today, about a situation that I
definitely know you've written about in the past, because I linked to
lwn in my email:

   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiKoePP_9CM0fn_Vv1bYom7iB5N=ULaLLz7yOST3K+k5g@mail.gmail.com/

and while I suspect people don't actually read documentation
(_particularly_ maintainers that have already been around for a long
time but still do this), maybe that part could be in the same
documentation?

                 Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-08 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-08 11:48 GFS2: Pull Request Andreas Gruenbacher
2019-05-08 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-08 18:06   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-08 20:17     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2019-05-08 20:21       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-08 20:58       ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-05-08 21:05         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-05-08 21:50           ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-05-28 18:55   ` cross-merges with MFD tree (was: Re: GFS2: Pull Request) Jacek Anaszewski
2019-05-29 11:40     ` Lee Jones
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-18  8:38 GFS2: Pull request Steven Whitehouse
2010-03-02 11:03 Steven Whitehouse
2009-12-03 15:01 Steven Whitehouse
2009-09-14  8:08 Steven Whitehouse
2009-06-11 10:51 Steven Whitehouse
2009-04-15 11:26 Steven Whitehouse
2009-03-24 12:20 Steven Whitehouse
2009-01-05  9:34 Steven Whitehouse
2008-01-25  9:46 GFS2 " Steven Whitehouse

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