Re: [PATCH docs] docs: maintainers: suggest including lore link for conflicts known to linux-next

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:16:24 -0400 Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 05:47:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > You can point to the email that Stephen sent (using lore), or you can
> > quote his resolution (or your own, if you do a test-merge, like many
> > people do) if you want.  It's not a requirement.  
> 
> Yeah, I normally do my own test merge.  I might check to see if it's
> the same as the one which is in linux-next, but the more importantly,
> I then run a full set of regression tests and make sure there are no
> new test failures caused by the merge resolution.

Alright, I guess we all end up intuiting in a similar way :)
In this case let's ditch the patch, it may do more harm than good.
Someone may read it as "if Stephen posted something - just point 
at it without thinking".



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