From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f54.google.com (mail-wm0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079C04A59 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:17:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f54.google.com with SMTP id g23so106479819wme.1 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 01:17:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=saAp5MKeAHbMdB3sAP7PWVovdVDhs2seJZ8rWSdvAfs=; b=AMJecH+UVU/S6PB6ZMA3Z4HWtrm5ylmn6zTO1A+9+CAFE6Ce+HIxyJRBUtvEgFzEr8 Cu5HHHWbsArvFxLPqPILkkz5K/Dvm2yQHTJJ1rxFwiOilF67Ndv5rX9QE+79Qj3etqfQ 9h2m4y4hMNlPDhYvEd3Q4QPVSrMPZwc1bQzWcsiRHdwaP/UiXBBju765zTRhhrIHwopQ iVVSiMCX+KQjpytyU9CSMmI3VQnLpB1dtpSR/9Q+yCzcuDSQPs6PxO5OKXAhplhG838q 6nIylfJvdjyzENL+j3BBzazJcP0ZsnnFcpVPFtxtsYJKbSZmatWs//1BSbXgz+3Mp2Ye 22xQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=saAp5MKeAHbMdB3sAP7PWVovdVDhs2seJZ8rWSdvAfs=; b=T7L2ODG7050ba96yhjDlO8HggpCEFcJQyrwZm2wwotbGiLft6reA8hvb6Dny2dnfL3 tV5QcHDKOGU3Llwsj3Xm9iS3dqrVUUc/9DSPCjFnc+Edsw7iCYCYSQJ7Y/keevTJJRX3 rZVjgFD3S+J/7wilVZLrvhKMMgMfpW9hWMA9ZD7/KmV/LOmGBxt15Im3wPQCO0u2jAiF sdrm7/N0hjdbruqeG6HxSlHDfrnZ5TOI6IUIcfqKfiBUK6SOZ+5+XQsdmXtiiOBpuEiv SMILO1+0npKREtO/feZ4Tqwb0NehtxIS5JR/2SMiQhvMC2Fe9aoyZVWFDWsAYpSUYUYz zgoA== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC02XZufgjjKCGTd+ymetsYlVloD6PEC+SV6IwDsbDWX+uC5q/QIH4aSpgu7G9YQ1o9WJ X-Received: by 10.28.152.79 with SMTP id a76mr1344322wme.47.1479979030652; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 01:17:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d10sm40689186wja.20.2016.11.24.01.17.09 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 24 Nov 2016 01:17:09 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Neil Horman Cc: Ferruh Yigit , dev@dpdk.org, "Mcnamara, John" Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:17:09 +0100 Message-ID: <1598958.4NzbtDc3LW@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20161123201330.GD6961@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> References: <20161123201330.GD6961@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Proposal for a new Committer model X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:17:11 -0000 2016-11-23 15:13, Neil Horman: > Can either you or thomas provide some detail as to how you are doing patch > management between trees (details of the commands you use are what I would be > interested in). It sounds to me like there may be some optimization to be made > here before we even make changes to the subtrees. Until now, we preferred avoiding merge commits. That's why I rebase sub-trees to integrate them in the mainline. As Ferruh explained, it does not require more work because sub-trees are regularly rebased anyway. And I use a script to keep original committer name and date. Hope it's clear now