On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 02:45:01PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > On that point...I have my github repo tied into the 0day infrastructure, > not the official repo. I do that because I've publicly announced that > my github repo is a WIP repo, and that it might be rebased. That allows > me to correct build issues by fixing up the broken patch and thereby > keep bisectability at its highest. If you use a branch/tag on k.o for > your 0day testing, then fixes have to be incremental and depending on > which patch broke the build, there might be a significant segment of > code that is no longer bisectable.
.. and this is because the k.o repo is setup to disallow force push for each branch, so a 0 day testing branch cannot be rebased? > > Doug will send Stephen Rothwell a note to move his for-next pull for > > RDMA from Doug's personal directory to: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git > > > > Branch k.o/for-next > > Actually, the linux-next testing uses a tag instead of a branch. That > allows for oddball scenarios that you might want to get testing. Say, > for instance, that you have a for-next branch with most of your stuff, > but you also have a separate branch that simply isn't ready to be pushed > yet, but you still want to get some early merge analysis, then you > create a throwaway branch, merge your for-next and this topic branch > together, throw the for-next tag on it for a couple or three days, and > if Stephen doesn't find anything, you're on the right path with your > development code. Then you just reset the tag prior to pushing to > Linus. Makes sense, this is why I said you'll send the note, because you know how it is setup :) Jason
