Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751198AbZIREhK (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:37:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750927AbZIREhI (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:37:08 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42802 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750817AbZIREhH (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:37:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:36:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: liqin.chen@sunplusct.com cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, liqin.gnu@gmail.com Subject: Re: [GIT PULL, v4] S+core architecture (arch/score) support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1439 Lines: 35 On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, liqin.chen@sunplusct.com wrote: > > Would you please give me some advice, or tell me where > to get these informations, that will be helpful for us to co-work > with you in the future. See all the other pull requests out there. Some of them are scripted (by fairly trivial scripts), some of them are done by hand, but they tend to all have the same structure: a 'shortlog' of the commits that are new, and a diffstat (with summary) of the changes. The important thing is that then I know what to expect from the pull, rather than having to pull blindly and see the end result (without really knowing whether that was what you intended for me to get). There's even a 'git request-pull' script that comes with git that generates these things, although I'm not sure how many people use that particular script. But just look for "please pull" on lkml, and you'll find a lot of examples. Btw, I appreciate people not sending just the raw unedited "git request-pull" output. I'd like people to actually look at it to make sure that the thing matches what you expected, but also add a few lines of your own to describe the changes in your own words. 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/