Re: [GIT] Networking

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:51:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > The reasons can be any of:
> > 
> >  - "I don't want to get too far away from upstream". This is very
> > understandable, but I have asked people to please _not_ merge "random
> > trees of the day". Please use major releases for this (or, if worst
> > comes to worst, -rc releases) rather than just do something else.
> 
> What are you throughts on starting work from a tree. Most of my work is usually 
> based off of some branch in tip, but sometimes when I'm pulling in patches that 
> are not really related to anything, I just simply grab whatever the latest Linus 
> branch is and start from there.
> 
> Is it preferable to instead start from one of the official releases?

Yes, for clarity of merge history i'm generally asking all people who send pull 
requests to -tip to use official -rc's as bases (or -tip branches), *not* some 
random daily -git snapshot. If a -git snapshot has to be merged for a good reason 
then please amend the merge commit with the Merge-Reason tag describing the good 
reason you had.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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