Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263077AbTIAQhT (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:37:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263112AbTIAQhT (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:37:19 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:56043 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263077AbTIAQhK (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:37:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:36:57 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Alan Cox Cc: Larry McVoy , Christoph Hellwig , Albert Cahalan , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , ak@suse.de Subject: Re: bitkeeper comments Message-ID: <20030901163657.GF1327@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Alan Cox , Larry McVoy , Christoph Hellwig , Albert Cahalan , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , ak@suse.de References: <1062389729.314.31.camel@cube> <20030901140706.GG18458@work.bitmover.com> <1062430014.314.59.camel@cube> <20030901154646.GB1327@work.bitmover.com> <20030901165658.A24661@infradead.org> <20030901155915.GC1327@work.bitmover.com> <1062434020.14183.13.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1062434020.14183.13.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1090 Lines: 21 On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:33:40PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2003-09-01 at 16:59, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Hey, I'm not in the middle of this because I don't understand who is right > > and it's not my place to make that call. I said "if Linus or Marcelo says > > do it" specifically for the case that there is some hanky panky going on. > > On the other hand, it's perfectly possible that the wrong comment got > > stuck in there and if that's the case why shouldn't it get fixed? > > Presumably in the abstract "if you care" case you can generate this > change globally by excluding that changeset and all after, then > reapplying it with a different comment then reapplying all that follow ? Yup, that would work just fine. Anyone can do this. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/