Re: [PATCH] ide: Fix bug caused by git merge

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Jun 01 2011 - 16:42:09 EST


On 2011-06-01 22:27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Jens, you really can't do that. When you see a conflict marker, you
> need to look at WHY. The conflict may well be because of removed lines
> rather than added lines, the correct resolution is NOT necessarily to
> just take everything within the conflicting region.

Of course I look at the conflicts. I don't know what happened in this
case. Contrary to what you think, I do do regular merges. Usually not in
external branches, and if I do, it's only to resolve non-trivial
conflicts.

And I don't know why this one got so screwed up, well reversed really.

--
Jens Axboe

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