On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:26:48AM +0800, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:43:45AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > > >> Actually, I'd prefer to pull it in, rebase and sign off each patch > >> individually in my tree if that is not causing you problems. > > > > Actually, that would mess us up pretty badly. :( > > OK so I didn't do this, I just pulled it in :-) I could tell, Stephen would have had a heart attack :) > >> That way it is visible that the patches were funneled through pin > >> control. > > > > I'm a little confused by this. Once you merge the branch into one of > > yours, that merge commit is a part of the history. > > Yes this has been discussed in the past. Would you have a link handy? My first thought was to create a tag, eg "Sent-through: subsystem <maintainer@xxxxxxxxxxx>" that I would add to patches as I pull them in. After all, I know where I'm sending them. Or should at any rate. > But when a developer bisects down to a certain commit and just looks > at it with git log there is no telling which subsystem this thing came > from and who actually funnelled it to Torvalds. True. > I do know you *can* find that out with some git magic, the problem > is that it is so magic that most developers don't know it and just > look at the signoffs. It would be helpful if there were a complement to 'git merge-base', say 'git merge-tip' to point to the merge commit that joined the branch containing commit X. Run in succession, it would yield committers me (I merged pinctrl-dove into pinctrl), you, Torvalds. > But it's not like I care super-much. Well, if the code is perfect, we don't have to worry about a lazy developer bisecting down to one of our commits. ;-) btw - I have one last pull request I'll be sending tomorrow that's a couple of commits on top of what you currently have. It's very small, but we're avoiding locking ourselves into supporting a bad DT ABI. The real code change just downgrades a WARN(). The rest is correcting the binding doc. thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
