Re: Adrian Bunk is now taking over the 2.6.16-stable branch

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Aug 09 2006 - 19:02:58 EST


* Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:45:29AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > No, I would not use the main git tree to queue patches up. What happens
> > > when you want to rip the middle one out because in review it turns out
> > > that it is incorrect?
> >
> > git-revert
>
> Ok, fair enough, but it messes with the changelogs a bunch.

You can always keep it all on a "pending" branch, and cherrypick if
needed (instead of straight merge if you needed to drop something) to
keep the final changelogs sane.

thanks,
-chris
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