[openib-general] Re: [git pull] InfiniBand fixes for 2.6.14

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Sep 29 09:12:36 PDT 2005


On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:44:55AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Greg> I didn't think that git pulls were going to be allowed from
>     Greg> subsystem maintainers after -rc1 came out.  After that,
>     Greg> patches by email were required to be sent, not git pulls.
>     Greg> This does cause a bit more work for the maintainer, but it
>     Greg> ensures that they only send the patches they really want to
>     Greg> get in.
> 
> I specifically asked Linus about this a couple of weeks ago, and he
> said that bug-fix-only git merges are file.  See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/13/277

Ah, thanks for pointing me to that, I missed that.

greg k-h



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