On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:01:33 +0200 Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In your example, couldn't Darrick simply base his xfs work on the latest > xfs branch that was pulled by Linus? That should be up to date with all > things xfs without having any of the things that made Linus's tree not > work for him. Sure, but why? I thought this whole exercise is to make the process easier. This seems to be making it more complex. Now we are going to be demanding submitters to be basing their work on a specific (older) commit. I always tell people that submit to me, to base off of one of Linus's latest tags. That's what I do. -- Steve
