On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:19:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Ok, the diffstat below seems "odd" in that I had done a merge with my > > char-misc tree to resolve some merge issues a while ago, and that tree > > is now in your tree, so the diffstat shouldn't be showing it (I updated > > my master branch), but somehow it is. > > When there isn't a single well-defined common base for the merge > (which happens when you cross-merge, but also if you have multiple > different bases internally and then merge inside one branch), the "git > diff" output will pick one of the (multiple) common bases, and use > that as the base of the diff. > > That usually works fine, but it can also give wildly wrong diffstat > results, simply because the only way to get the final real diff would > be to just do the merge.
Ah, ok, that makes more sense, thanks. > > Also, there are a number of conflicts here when merging with your tree. > > both modified: drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mn88473.c > > deleted by them: drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c > > both modified: > > drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/linux/linux-crypto.c > > both modified: > > drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/davinci_vpfe_user.h > > both modified: include/linux/irqdomain.h > > > > I can fix these up and resend this with a merged tree pull request if > > you want me to, it's your call. > > No, all good. I've already merged it, I'm just waiting for the build > test to finish before pushing out the end result. > > You might want to double-check the end result, but nothing looked > particularly odd. All looks good, thanks for doing the merge. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
