Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: support switchdev FDB objects

[David Miller]

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:18:42 -0400 (EDT)

> On Aug 11, 2015, at 2:07 PM, David davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:03:35 -0700
>> 
>>> Put differently, my question is how do you value not rewriting
>>> history vs. breaking bisectability (by accident of course)?
>> 
>> I never will rewrite history, ever.
>> 
>> Too many people clone my tree and depend upon it.
> 
> Sorry, I still don't understand. What are the consequences of:
> 
>     git revert -m 1 f1d5ca4
> 
> Then applying v3?

In this scenerio I think a relative fixup works better.

> You already did that in the past:
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1f2cd84

Each and every situation is evaluated by me on a case by case
basis.
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