Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:06:22 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git training wheels for the pimple faced maintainer
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> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:50:11 +0200 Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I don't care what the history is.  I fetch the whole thing then generate
> > (you - linus) as a single unified diff then whack it into the patch pile.
> >   
> 
> How do you handle when I'm a bit after Linus (which will be the case
> most of the time)? Will me doing pulls left and right distrupt this?
> 

Nope, that's fine.  git gives me a diff which is "things which are in Pierre's
tree but which aren't in Linus's".

Just go ahead and do whatever it is you want to do and don't bother about
-mm.  If something goes badly wrong (it probably won't) then we can take a
look at it.
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