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| author | Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> | |
| Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:57:52 +0000 (11:57 -0700) | ||
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
| Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:10:56 +0000 (19:10 -0700) | ||
| commit | 352953a556e7f8d720e26a32d4aabbf823d3c4d4 | |
| tree | 56fa5da570842fb4a84ab112279974a1f31b586e | tree | snapshot |
| parent | 24757702395ed4c828af585f2d8ba0efda5cf697 | commit | diff |
Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The real problem is that maintainers often pick random - and not at
> all stable - points for their development to begin with. They just
> pick some random "this is where Linus -git tree is today", and do
> their development on top of that. THAT is the problem - they are
> unaware that there's some nasty bug in that version.
Maybe they do this because they read it in the Git user-manual.
Fix the manual to give them better guidance.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The real problem is that maintainers often pick random - and not at
> all stable - points for their development to begin with. They just
> pick some random "this is where Linus -git tree is today", and do
> their development on top of that. THAT is the problem - they are
> unaware that there's some nasty bug in that version.
Maybe they do this because they read it in the Git user-manual.
Fix the manual to give them better guidance.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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