Re: linux-next: stats (Was: Linux 6.0-rc1)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Stephen,

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:55 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are also 320 commits in next-20220802 that didn't make it into
> v6.0-rc1.

> Top ten commiters:

>      13 geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx

How did that happen? Turns out these are false positives.

Whenever I update any of the renesas-*-for-vX.Y branches, I merge
them into renesas-next, which is pulled into linux-next.
When a commit in a renesas-*-for-vX.Y branch turns out to be bad,
and the branch hasn't been pulled by soc yet, I just fix that by
rebasing the renesas-*-for-vX.Y branch, and resolving any conflicts
during the next merge into renesas-next.
So the bad commits are gone from the renesas-*-for-vX.Y branches,
and thus will never go upstream, but technically, they are still part
of linux-next.  Hence  they show up in the statistics you do not
want to be part of...

Perhaps I should just recreate renesas-next every time any of the
renesas-*-for-vX.Y branches needs to be rebased? I already recreate
renesas-next after each rc1 release.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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