From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2BF06B0092 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:25:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by iyj17 with SMTP id 17so20557692iyj.14 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:25:17 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:25:17 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.38 From: Tony Luck Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Linus Torvalds , cl@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Linus Torvalds 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org