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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead•org>,
	Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>
Cc: linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: linux-next: unnecessary merges in the v4l-dvb tree
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:24:45 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141030092445.519a86ba@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)

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Hi Mauro,

I noticed that you have two unnecessary merges in the v4l-dvb tree
(git://linuxtv.org/mchehab/media-next.git#master).  This is not
entirely your fault.  Unfortunately, when you do

git merge <signed tag>

git will produce a merge commit even if it could have fast
forwarded :-(.  Consequently, you have commits 1ef24960ab78 ("Merge tag
'v3.18-rc1' into patchwork") and d6d41ba1cb38 ("Merge remote-tracking
branch 'linus/master' into patchwork") even though the patchwork branch
in each case is included in the tag being merged.

The only ways I know around this is to either merge the commit
associated with the tag or do a (hard) reset to the tag.

Linus, any thoughts?
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb•auug.org.au

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-10-29 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29 22:24 Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2014-10-30 10:09 ` linux-next: unnecessary merges in the v4l-dvb tree Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2014-10-30 10:59   ` Stephen Rothwell

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