Subject: Re: [RFC] to rebase or not to rebase on linux-next
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
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On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 13:18 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > Sure, but I'm not talking about changing the patch, I'm talking about a
> > late "reviewed by" or "tested-by". These usually do come after a patch
> > set has been moved into the final git push. It would be nice to flag a
> > commit that it was tested by someone.
> >
> [...]
> > 
> > My suggestion is to add an "annotation" commit that can tag another
> > commit with something like a "tested-by". This way a tester can say,
> > they tested this particular commit, and if someone changes it, the SHA1
> > will no longer match. And then we can also have a record of what commit
> > was tested by who, after the fact that it went into git.
> 
> There is a "git notes" feature from Johan Herland being carried in thepu 
> branch of the git repository.  I strongly suggest to those who might 
> think this could be useful in this context to express their interest by 
> posting to git@vger.kernel.org.  With a concrete need and usage scenario 
> (and offer to help at least with testing) this feature might become 
> usable sooner.
> 

Thanks for the pointer Nicolas, but it looks like my ideas have already
been NAK'd by Linus.

Oh well,

-- Steve


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