Subject: Re: [RFC] to rebase or not to rebase on linux-next
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reply-To: rostedt@goodmis.org
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
       Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
       "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
       Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
       "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
       Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
       Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
       Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 15:39 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:27:04 EDT, Steven Rostedt said:
> > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >  Don't lie about 
> > > getting an ack that you didn't get before you made that patch public.
> > 
> > But how do you get your ack without making it public?
> 
> I'm going to guess that Linus meant "causing the patch to show up in a
> public git tree" - i.e. shop the patch around on lkml and similar lists a
> bit and get some acked-by's to attach to it *before* it goes out in a tree
> that everybody might pull from.

Yeah, I was being a little facetious there. The rest of my email I was
being serious.

-- Steve


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