Re: USB development and git

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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:00:43PM -0800, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:01:28AM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:00:23PM -0600, Greg KH wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >After a discussion at the kernel summit last week, Linus expressed a
> > >strong preference for the subsystem maintainers to start using git, and
> > >for them to start accepting git pulls from the people that they trust as
> > >well.
> > >
> > >So, I'm going to try to switch over to using git for development and to
> > >send patches to Linus directly.  My git tree is now at:
> > >	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6.git
> > >
> > >There are two branches in there:
> > >	usb-next - this is what should show up in the linux-next tree
> > >	usb-linus - this is what I'm wanting to push to Linus for this
> > >	major release.
> > 
> > Thanks, that actually makes my life a lot easier :-) To be sure my
> > patches where applied, I only to check two branches from you, no need
> > for scripting around git quiltimport :-)
> > 
> > To send pulls, I'll always base of Linus' most recent tag.
> 
> Hmm, but if you're sending patches for linux-next (i.e. not for the
> current rc), then don't you want to base off of Greg's usb-next tree?

Yes, please do that, otherwise I'll get extra merges that I do not need,
and Linus does not want.  I'll merge to Linus's tree ever -rc or so,
only if needed for the -next branches.

thanks,

greg k-h
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