Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Quite frankly, I'd much rather not run hooks on my tree directly. The less 
> > > that can possibly get screwed up with my kernel.org tree, the happier I 
> > > am. So in many ways, I really prefer the whole "done separately by others" 
> > > approach.
> > > 
> > > But hey, send the hook to me, and I'll think about it.
> > 
> > One thing we might be able to do is to create an "exploder hook" on your
> > tree - something that asynchronously broadcasts a notification that
> > anyone can subscribe to.
> 
> Yeah, some minimal hook just informing any interested party about "ok, 
> Linus pushed to the main tree" (and in fact, perhaps generalized so that 
> you can show that you are interested in some particular branch of _any_ 
> tree that people can just add to their trees) certainly doesn't sound like 
> a bad idea.
> 
> That way we can get rid of "polling by cron", without having to have 
> the tree owners themselves care about who is interested in exactly 
> what..

That's already possible via the git-commits-head@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx email 
list. Anyone can subscribe to it and can procmail process it. It is also 
more secure (and less intrusive to the tree owner) than any post-push 
hook script running under the pusher's UID. Polling via cron is really 
not required i think.

	Ingo
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