Re: Linux 3.15-rc8 ... and merge window for 3.16

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 07:37:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  > So let's try to see how well that works - the last weeks of the
>  > release tends to be me just waiting around to make sure nothing bad is
>  > happening, so doing this kind of overlapping development *should* work
>  > fine. Maybe it works so well that we'll end up doing it in the future
>  > even if there *isn't* some kind of scheduling conflict that makes me
>  > want to start the merge window before I'm 100% comfortable doing the
>  > release for the previous version.
>
> one side-effect of this is that the git-commits-head list is now posting
> the commits you're queueing in your next branch but no way afaict to
> distinguish them from changes going into 3.15
>
> Can whoever maintains that hook add an X-branch header or something to make
> filtering them easier ?

Not to mention what happened when "next" got merged into "master": we
received another copy of all commits. I had a backlog of only 4000 commits
before the weekend, but after the pentecost holidays, this increased to 12000,
incl. 5000 duplicates or so.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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