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[xfs-masters] Re: linux-next: manual merge of the creds tree

To: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [xfs-masters] Re: linux-next: manual merge of the creds tree
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:23:31 +1000
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-next@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>, xfs-masters@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi James,
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:53:18 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 19:23:11 +1000 (EST) James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not 100% clear on the new process.
> > 
> > What happens with your fixup patch?  Is this something you maintain in 
> > your tree from now until these trees are merged with Linus?  (At which 
> > point we'll run into the same conflicts again ?)
> 
> I redo the conflict fixup (well, "git rerere" usually does it for me)
> each day, and by the time the tree gets merged by Linus, he will either
> fix the conflict as well, or somewhere along the way it gets taken care
> of by the owner of one of the trees by doing a merge or rebase against
> Linus' tree after the other tree gets merged.
> 
> Or sometimes we do a temporary form of an API change so that other trees
> can do the API change early and thus remove the conflict.
> 
> There is nothing official about this procedure, I am just trying to make
> things easier by noticing possible problems early.

Of course build (and runtime) bugs are a different matter and should be
fixed as soon as possible.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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