Re: [stable] [patch 44/47] pxamci: fix byte aligned DMA transfers

[Pierre Ossman]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:22:56 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Pulling doesn't change the SHA1 ID of a commit, so _if_ it had been stable 
> in the -mmc tree, it would have had the same commit in the kernel too. 
> That's very much a design issue in git: the same commit always has the 
> same ID. _ALWAYS_.
> 
> So the fact that the ID changed implies that something odd happened in the 
> -mmc tree. Most likely a rebase. And again, this implies that somebody 
> rebased already-public commits, since otherwise nobody would have ever 
> even seen the original SHA1 ID. 

Indeed I did. Things got shuffled around a bit when I updated the
patch queue with more stuff and the old attempt hadn't gotten merged
yet.

> 
> Which is not good behaviour, _exactly_ because it makes it much harder for 
> people to work together - suddenly a commit that got reported (for 
> whatever reason: bug-report or 'please backport', it's all the same issue 
> in the end) no longer exists.

I've always considered my "for-linus" branch to be primarily that, but I
guess I can be more careful so that other people can use it as well.

Rgds
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