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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg•samsung.com>
Cc: Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>
Subject: linux-next: unnecessary merge in the v4l-dvb tree
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:00:36 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180213080036.3bf3a908@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)

Hi Mauro,

By merging the v4.16-rc1 tag into the v4l-dvb tree, you have created an
unnecessary merge commit.  The v4l-dvb tree was already contained in
v4.16-rc1, so a fast forward merge was possible, but explicitly merging
a signed tag will give you a commit instead.  In this case, you could
have just reset your branch to v4.16-rc1 or merged v4.16-rc1^0.

Linus, this happens a bit after the merge window, so I am wondering
about the rational of not doing a fast forward merge when merging a
signed tag (I forget the reasoning).
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-12 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-12 21:00 Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2018-02-12 21:15 ` linux-next: unnecessary merge in the v4l-dvb tree Linus Torvalds
2018-02-12 21:36   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-02-12 21:37   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-12 21:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-12 21:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-12 23:42         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-13  0:21           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-02-13 17:18             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-13 17:33               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-14 18:12                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-12 21:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-12 21:27 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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