Re: [alsa-devel] HG -> GIT migration
From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Wed May 21 2008 - 14:50:08 EST
At Wed, 21 May 2008 11:25:25 -0700 (PDT),
david@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > [ The corrollary to this all is that when downstream does a merge, think
> > about what the merge message can say. How would you descibe the merge?
> >
> > Can you give a good description of what you merged, and why? That's one
> > thing that merging with releases can give you: you can say "merge with
> > release 'xyz'", and people actually understand the *meaning* of it. Your
> > merge message makes sense - and that implies that the merge itself
> > likely made sense.
> >
> > If you cannot explain what and why you merged, you probably shouldn't be
> > merging - that's a good rule of thumb right there! Maybe that rule in
> > itself should already be seen as sufficient ]
>
> one thing that you have missed in your explination in this thread
> (although you have made the point in other threads) is that subsystem
> maintainers have the fear that there are other changes that will interfere
> with their stuff and want to catch it early.
>
> per your instructions in prior threads, what they should do is to have a
> seperate branch on their system that they use as a throw-away branch to
> pull from your tree, and from their tree to spot problems. As they find
> problems they can then address them (cherry pick, or whatever)
>
> so it's not that the ALSA people should only look at your tree at the
> merge points, it's that they shouldn't pollute their tree that they are
> going to publish to you with this checking.
Ah, that's what I missed. This suggestion actually makes sense.
Takashi
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