Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Distribution kernel bugzillas considered harmful

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 11:50:08AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 08:03:15 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am one of those strange people who rebase in order to improve
> > bisectability.  But one reason I can do that is that I have relatively
> > few patches, and it gets harder the more patches I am carrying.  I suppose
> > that someone (not me!) could rebase -stable to make it more bisectable,
> 
> How would rebasing it make stable more bisectable? Once you rebase, you
> don't have a tree that use to work? Although I guess you may find the
> commit that caused the problem better. But rebasing creates a lot of
> other issues, I would not recommend rebasing stable, as that would
> totally break the RT stable tree work flow.

Instead of leaving the buggy commit and the span where the bug exists,
you rebase the fix into the original buggy fix.

And I bet that rebasing -stable would cause no end of broken glass in
a great many projects.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul