Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262535AbVDGRwZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:52:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262534AbVDGRwZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:52:25 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.194]:58147 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262535AbVDGRwL (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:52:11 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=N9BVN8NeK+nxO8QISX2LciDwrQnFxAEyipAn8vQmWwm+asCFNcDS754QeBj5jMH4blaWMc8PwjHutisJw59nKlsdeXsoSxqDVKJx0dMb9/5J2gxJhMM2JbixGQE5RqXybkKj/8mgyt+1mT/FDPUbFnc+v1AUiXFbc2Z8+vex0kI= Message-ID: <58cb370e05040710526bab8ce7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 19:52:06 +0200 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Al Viro Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Cc: Linus Torvalds , David Woodhouse , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050407171006.GF8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1112858331.6924.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050407171006.GF8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1236 Lines: 26 On Apr 7, 2005 7:10 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:32:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Also, there's actually a second reason why I've decided that cherry- > > picking is wrong, and it's non-technical. > > > > The thing is, cherry-picking very much implies that the people "up" the > > foodchain end up editing the work of the people "below" them. The whole > > reason you want cherry-picking is that you want to fix up somebody elses > > mistakes, ie something you disagree with. > > No. There's another reason - when you are cherry-picking and reordering > *your* *own* *patches*. That's what I had been unable to explain to > Larry and that's what made BK unusable for me. Yep, I missed this in BK a lot. There is another situation in which cherry-picking is very useful: even if you have a clean tree it still may contain bugfixes mixed with unrelated cleanups and sometimes you want to only apply bugfixes. Bartlomiej - 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/