On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 15:23 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > James, Robert- > I've been doing lots of backports of FCoE code to the RHEL tree these > last few months, and I've noticed something fairly irritating, and I was > wondering if you two could help me out with it (in fact you two are the only two > which can). I noticed that commits which are accepted into the FCoE tree that > get passed upstream through the scsi tree have their commit hashes altered. I > can't find any examples currently, due to the fact that you, Robert, have > recently re-cloned your git tree at open-fcoe.org, so all this nastiness has > been covered up currently, but if things don't change, this issue will quickly > resurface. > > Regardless, This makes it _really_ difficult to track a given patchs' traversal > between trees upstream, and makes my life as a distro subsystem maintainer fairly > painful. Normally I would just live with it, but I can't see any reason why it > should be this way, given that git can easily prevent this with a pull. James, > Robert, could you two please work out a way to provide commit hash consistency > between your trees? It would make mine (and I'm sure many other people's) > lives, much easier. I'm reluctant to commit to any tracking process that relies on stable commit ids simply because they're illusory in git: if we find a bug in a commit (or even worse a bisection failure) in a tree, we fix it there, which causes the commit id to change. The way I do this type of tracking is via the Subject: line ... why can't you use that? James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
