On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > [James, I am not picking on you, just using your tree to illustrate a > point.] > > The top commit in the security tree today is a merge of v3.9-rc2. This > is a completely unnecessary merge as the tree before the merge was a > subset of v3.9-rc1 and so if the merge had been done using anything but > the tag, it would have just been a fast forward. I know that this is now > deliberate behaviour on git's behalf, but isn't there some way we can > make this easier on maintainers who are just really just trying to pick a > new starting point for their trees after a release? (at least I assume > that is what James was trying to do)
Yes, and I was merging to a tag as required by Linus. -- James Morris <jmor...@namei.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
