RE: git pull on Linux/ACPI release tree

[Brown, Len]

>From: David S. Miller

>I think merges with conflicts that need to get resolved by hand create
>a lot of noise and useless information and therefore to me they are
>pointless.  But this is just my opinion.  It simply works easier to me
>to shuffle the patches in by hand and deal with the rejects one by
>one.  It's very much akin to how Andrew's -mm tree works.

I guess in this model you can do all your development with quilt,
and the value of git is a high-bandwidth bransport medium to
replace e-mail.

>I think a clean history is worth an extra few minutes of someone's
>time.  And note that subsystem development is largely linear anyways.

Maybe true in your neck of the woods, but not true here.

I have more than a dozen topic branches in my tree, and they mature
at different rates.

When a topic branch is in the test tree and and a follow-up patch
is needed, I check out that topic branch and put the patch
exactly in non-linear 3D history where it is meant to live.
When the topic seems fully baked, I can pull the top of the
branch into the release tree.

-Len
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