Re: [RFC] to rebase or not to rebase on linux-next

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 15:39 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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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