[PATCH] Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:40
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds wrote:
The real problem is that maintainers often pick random - and not at all stable - points for their development to begin with. They just pick some random "this is where Linus -git tree is today", and do their development on top of that. THAT is the problem - they are unaware that there's some nasty bug in that version.
Maybe they do this because they read it in the Git user-manual. Fix the manual to give them better guidance. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> ---
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index fecc4eb..66a249d 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt@@ -2171,11 +2171,14 @@ $ git push mytree release Now to apply some patches from the community. Think of a short snappy name for a branch to hold this patch (or related group of -patches), and create a new branch from the current tip of Linus's -branch: +patches), and create a new branch from a recent stable tag of +Linus's branch. Picking a stable base for your branch will: +1) help you: by avoiding inclusion of unrelated and perhaps lightly +tested changes +2) help future bug hunters that use "git bisect" to find problems ------------------------------------------------- -$ git checkout -b speed-up-spinlocks origin +$ git checkout -b speed-up-spinlocks v2.6.35 ------------------------------------------------- Now you apply the patch(es), run some tests, and commit the change(s). If