Re: linux-next: first tree

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Feb 14 2008 - 16:26:46 EST


On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 16:03 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Also, more trees please ... :-)
>
> Please add the 'NEXT' branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git
>
> to your list. This is a throwaway meta-branch that is rebased often.
>
> The 'master' branch of libata-dev.git always contains the base commit
> from torvalds/linux-2.6.git from which all other branches are based. I
> never ever commit to the 'master' branch, only update it from
> torvalds/linux-2.6.git.
>
>
> Andrew,
>
> I will continue to maintain the 'ALL' branch exactly as before. It may
> contain changes not suitable for 'NEXT', but suitable for -mm testing.
>
> In my new development process, things will almost always land in 'ALL'
> before 'NEXT'.

So does this indicate the meaning of upstream and upstream-fixes is
still the same? I always took upstream-fixes to be bug fixes for this
-rc and upstream as queued for the next merge window, in which case NEXT
would be the union of those two sets?

James


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