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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte•hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg•org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: tip-core merge conflict
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:34:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080613003427.9866ff07.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080612141022.GA28001@elte.hu>

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Hi Ingo,

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:10:22 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte•hu> wrote:
>
> i think it might be a communications issue - as conflicts are not a 
> problem per se, they are just a complication that you resolve.
> 
> So it might make sense to change the subject line of your merge 
> resolution mails from:
> 
>   linux-next: tip-core merge conflict
> 
> to:
> 
>   linux-next: manual merge of tip-core
> 
> that way people still stay informed about interactions between trees 
> (and can reduce them when they are avoidable, and can check the result 
> as well since it was done manually), but dont see it as some sort of 
> failure that needs to be 'resolved' via dropping patches.

Thanks for the suggestion, I like it.  Look forward to calmer subjects
from now on. :-)

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

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10  2:08 linux-next: tip-core merge conflict Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-10  4:51 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-10 19:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-06-10 23:52   ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-12 14:10     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-12 14:34       ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]

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