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From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	cl@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.38
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:25:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim29V8-w23zc=akW+F3CW-BKYR=jpWRVnr3x4E0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiknwXJF+pLJFQPqa7XPywi=boz-H+_JLk-T+Zp8@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> That said, "number of commits" is not a really meaningful measure
> either. I really tend to like how the ACPI tree does things, with
> separate branches for separate bugzilla entries - with nice relevant
> branch naming (bug number or description) - and then merging them. At
> that point you may well have a branch with just a single commit in it,
> but now the extra merge actually _adds_ information and the history
> looks better for it.

There are some notes on this work flow in the git sources in
Documentation/user-manual.txt in the [[maintaining-topic-branches]]
chapter.

-Tony

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-09  9:13 Pekka Enberg
2011-01-10 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-11 10:41   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-11 16:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-11 21:25       ` Tony Luck [this message]

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