Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261416AbVEXHrr (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 03:47:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261414AbVEXHrr (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 03:47:47 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:48015 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261416AbVEXHrp (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 03:47:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 00:46:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: Andrew Morton , Netdev , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x net driver updates In-Reply-To: <4292D7E1.80601@pobox.com> Message-ID: References: <4292BA66.8070806@pobox.com> <4292C8EF.3090307@pobox.com> <4292D7E1.80601@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1379 Lines: 33 On Tue, 24 May 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Ok, I'll fix the commit message. > > As for different trees, I'm afraid you've written something that is _too > useful_ to be used in that manner. I really think you'll eventually confuse yourself terminally, but as long as the commit messages end up being meaningful, your "mush everything together" clearly is the thing that is going to perform best. > Git has brought with it a _major_ increase in my productivity because I > can now easily share ~50 branches with 50 different kernel hackers, > without spending all day running rsync. Hey, I'm happy it works for you, but are you sure those 50 other kernel hackers aren't confused? IOW, your work model is pretty extreme, and I'm much more worried about mixing up trees by mistake than about the technical side of git per se. That's also why I think it's important that the commit logs are meaningful: they do end up containing the SHA1 key, so clearly "all the information" is there, but if something gets mixed up, I'd like some human to be able to eventualyl say "Aaahhh.. _that's_ where it got mixed up". Linus - 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/