On 21-05-08 16:52, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:37 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
I'm also still frequently trying to figure out an/the efficient way of using GIT but it does seem it's not just a matter of "pure downstream" (which I do believe ALSA has few enough of to not make this be a huge problem). For example linux-next is also going to want to pull in ALSA and say it does, finds a trivial conflict with the trivial tree that it also pulls in and fixes things up. If you rebase that which linux-next pulls from I believe it will have to redo the fix next time it pulls from you since it's getting all those new changesets.
I guess this can be avoided by just not rebasing that which linux-next is pulling... and I in fact don't even know if linux-next does any conflict resolution itself, trivial or otherwise.
I thought linux-next does fresh merges at each time, thus it doesn't matter whether a subsystem tree is rebased or not...
Let's ask...
Fresh merges at each release boundary certainly but if it drops/remerges each subsystem when a bug in its for-next branch is found (a supposedly non rare occurence) all the hopefully hundreds or even thousands of linux-next pullers/testers would seem to have to deal with all those completely new merges everytime as well. I'd hope linux-next during a single release would just pull in the one fix (the subsystem's for-linus branch can still fold it in).
Rene.