Re: [git pull] ieee1394 tree for 2.6.18

[Stefan Richter]

I wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> > The point was to try to establish when we could consider the tree from
> > which we'd asked Linus to pull from as being sufficiently old that it
> > would not be pulled from without another request being sent - or if it
> > was pulled from, that we wouldn't get an email from Linus about the fact
> > there was new stuff in there.
>
> You could /a/ try to come to an agreement with him about a less brittle 
> protocol, or /b/ think of your mail as an "announcement" rather than a 
> "request" (for your peace of mind) and follow up with a repost of the 
> announcement if you come to know that your updates did not appear in 
> Linus' tree when the end of a merge window is near.
...and simply post a new announcement when _you_ saw fit to update your 
outbound tree.
--
Stefan Richter
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