Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763852AbYBMARQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:17:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752917AbYBMARA (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:17:00 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:51941 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752878AbYBMAQ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:16:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:16:50 -0500 To: Al Viro Cc: David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linville@tuxdriver.com Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-)) Message-ID: <20080213001650.GY18625@fieldses.org> References: <20080212055312.GA5631@kroah.com> <20080211.220726.157328337.davem@davemloft.net> <47B1C9F4.30402@garzik.org> <20080212.155107.251983955.davem@davemloft.net> <20080212235401.GL27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080212235401.GL27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1624 Lines: 39 On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:54:01PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:51:07PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Jeff Garzik > > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:31:48 -0500 > > > > > I understand the desire to want a nice and clean history, but the > > > frequency here really has a negative impact on your downstreams. > > > > Ok, fair enough. Any alternative suggestions on how to remove turds > > without them being in the history? > > > > > It also totally screws the commit statistics, wiping me and John and the > > > committers we have preserved out, replacing everybody's committer with > > > David Miller. > > > > I am well aware of this downside, sorry. > > Ahem... Use of git-cherry-pick preserves commit information just fine. Not by default, at least (note they said "commiters", not "authors"): bfields@pig:~/local/linux-2.6$ git cherry-pick v2.6.25-rc1 Finished one cherry-pick. Created commit c445dc0: Linux 2.6.25-rc1 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) bfields@pig:~/local/linux-2.6$ git show --pretty=raw HEAD commit c445dc0a8b11877d6038dc528254733348c9f110 tree 4018d5d93f857d946dd89acbb4e45c9da04eadaf parent b6ce068a1285a24185b01be8a49021827516b3e1 author Linus Torvalds 1202681894 -0800 committer J. Bruce Fields 1202861481 -0500 --b. -- 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/