[PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support

Pekka Enberg penberg at kernel.org
Sat Jan 22 16:56:14 EST 2011


Hi Christoph!

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:19:58AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> Sure, it would have been nicer for everyone involved if Daniel would
>> have kept the original patches and added new patches to clean it up on
>> top of that to preserve the history.

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
> No, it would be a complete fucking mess that way.  We tell people to
> submit standalone and well formed patches all the time.  Why would it
> make any difference just because they were also commited to a shitty git
> tree somewhere else?

We also tell people to submit crap into tree all the time - it's
called staging! We also merge full history from time to time like in
the case of btrfs.

Usually even "shitty git trees" have value in the history for people
who're interested why the code is the way it is. But as people who
actually looked at the patches, it doesn't apply here.

                        Pekka



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