Re: Git training wheels for the pimple faced maintainer

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Oct 25 2006 - 18:07:29 EST


> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:50:11 +0200 Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I don't care what the history is. I fetch the whole thing then generate
> > (you - linus) as a single unified diff then whack it into the patch pile.
> >
>
> How do you handle when I'm a bit after Linus (which will be the case
> most of the time)? Will me doing pulls left and right distrupt this?
>

Nope, that's fine. git gives me a diff which is "things which are in Pierre's
tree but which aren't in Linus's".

Just go ahead and do whatever it is you want to do and don't bother about
-mm. If something goes badly wrong (it probably won't) then we can take a
look at it.
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