Re: Pull request: TASK_KILLABLE

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 06:41:46 EST




On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> I'd like you to pull the task_killable branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git

Well, Andrew already pointed out some of this, but I do want more
information. There's a "git request-pull" script that even comes with git
and that generates a shortlog, a proper url+branch description, and a
diffstat of the changes.

So that is already much more descriptive, but in addition to that, if this
isn't one of the "regular" pulls (which it obviously isn't), I really want
a human description too so that I know what I'm pulling and what it's all
about.

I do *not* want to be in the position of having to fetch first, just to be
able to look at what I'm fetching. By the time I pull a branch, I want to
basically know (a) what I'm pulling and (b) why I _want_ to pull it.

Linus
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