[GIT PULL 05/11] SoC-level changes for tegra and omap

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 19:12, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

[...]

> Now let's assume that all dependencies are merged upstream already
> and I just want to send out three pull requests. The first
> pull request generally works fine, though it could be that some
> version of git in the past would include the diff between v3.3-rc2
> and v3.3-rc4 in the diffstat. For the second pull request, I merge
> v3.3 with A and send do 'git request-pull B origin
> tmp-merge-of-upstream-and-A'. This seems to generate the correct
> list of patches, but the wrong diffstat (diffstat also contains
> the diff between v3.3-rc4 and v3.3-rc5, although that is indeed
> part of tmp-merge-of-upstream-and-A. For submitting branch C,
> I have to merge upstream, A, B and the dependencies together
> and then send a pull request against that. This typically also
> includes the external dependencies in the diffstat.

<throwing the bat in the hen house, no idea if this expression exists
in other languages than Dutch>
And all of this would look nice if you would have done a rebase on top of the
latest tagged version of Linus' tree that contains all prerequisites, right?
</throwing...>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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