From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:56:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
Message-ID: <20121024015613.GB2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyYD2jvD3+TSe=GhBgg5UQt2RNFdYf6HGiKRX-xWzFmdw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:02:49AM +0300, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> It is spelled:
> >>
> >>   git notes add -m <comment> SHA1
> >
> > Cool!
> 
> Don't use them for anything global.
> 
> Use them for local codeflow, but don't expect them to be distributed.
> It's a separate "flow", and while it *can* be distributed, it's not
> going to be for the kernel, for example. So no, don't start using this
> to ack things, because the acks *will* get lost.

How about git commit --allow-empty, with
"belated ACK for <commit>

Acked-by: <...>
" as commit message?  I mean, that ought to work and propagate sanely,
but I'm really not sure if that's something in a good taste and should
be allowed as a common practice...