On 9/4/05, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering if it would be too much trouble to have a mm-drops list
> > similar to the mm-commits list.
>
> Well I was sending drop messages to mm-commits, but lots of people went
> "Waah, why did you drop my patch?". A few hours after they'd been cc'ed as
> the patch went in to Linus! So then I was asked to include an explanation
> with the drop message and that all got too hard so I turned them off.
>
If patches dropped due to being merged in mainline were then commented
with a simple "merged in mainline" note, surely that would keep the
"Waah .." mails out of your mailbox. :-)
> <turns them back on again>
>
> > I also like to keep track of what patches of mine get accepted and
> > subsequently dropped.
>
> As I say, the way to do this is via your quilt series file.
>
Hmm, I've been looking at quilt, but never really got to the point of
actually starting to use it - guess I should get started on that.
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