On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 20:25 +0000, Love, Robert W wrote: > On 10/3/2012 12:23 PM, 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 had included pull URLs in the covermails of my updates, but I haven't > lately. I will make sure to do that from now on. Actually, I'm happy to do a pull based process with signed tags going forwards. However: > Bart had a complaint > about a misspelling in a commit message of a patch in my last update. I > just resent that three patch series with the corrected commit message. I > included a signed-tag to pull from in the covermail. That change changed the commit id and gives a graphic illustration of why any tracking process based on git commit ids is wrong. 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
