Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964852AbWIZVoF (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:44:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964850AbWIZVoE (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:44:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:58253 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964846AbWIZVoA (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:44:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:43:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Paolo Ciarrocchi cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: x86/x86-64 merge for 2.6.19 In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30609261425ob262489nec1240f5a0c5050f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200609261244.43863.ak@suse.de> <200609262202.28846.ak@suse.de> <200609262226.09418.ak@suse.de> <4d8e3fd30609261425ob262489nec1240f5a0c5050f@mail.gmail.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: 1454 Lines: 37 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > out of curiosity, wouldn't be better to sync with Andrew via git? > Why via plain patches? > > What am I missing? I think you're just missing that we've become so used to it that it's just easier than all the alternatives. Also, the way we do things with Andrew actually has a few advantages over a straight git-to-git merge. In particular, when Andrew sends me his current stable quilt queue, every email is also Cc'd to the people who sent it to him originally or were otherwise involved. So the very act of transferring the patches from one tree to another sometimes produces an extra acknowledgement cycle, and we've had patches that got NACK'ed at that point because it was an older version of the patch etc. Now, I suspect this is more of an advantage with Andrew's tree than with most other trees (most other trees tend to have a much stricter focus), and perhaps equally importantly, it also wouldn't really work very well if _everybody_ did it, so I personally believe this is one of those situations where what's good for _one_ case may not actually be wonderful for _all_ cases. I think it's worked out pretty well, no? 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/