Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

[David Miller]

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:37:42 -0800

> Well there's a case in point.  rcupdate.h is not a part of networking, and
> it is random tree-wandering like this which causes me problems and which
> will cause Stephen problems.
> 
> Now, I don't know which tree "owns" rcupdate.h but it ain't networking. 
> Probably git-sched.
> 
> Nothing in networking depends upon that change (which has a typo in the
> comment, btw) hence it can and should have gone through
> whichever-tree-owns-that-file.
> 
> For Stephen's sake: please.

At least thie time I did make sure that change got posted to
linux-kernel and got properly reviewed by the de-facto maintainer
(Paul McKenney). :-)

I'll toss it.

But how do I do that using GIT without rebasing and without
having this ugly changeset and revert in there?

That's the thing I want answered, and although Al claims it does,
git cherry-pick does not seem to do what I want either.

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