From: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 19:41:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] format-patch --signature-file <file>
Message-ID: <20140522194119.GA20201@hudson.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy4xtmyeg.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio,

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:00:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I just notice that my patch is in 'pu'.
> > But it is version 7 instead of the improved version 8.
> 
> Yeah, I know.  In a distributed environment, multiple people work
> independently and a sequence of event can go like this:
> 
>  - I read v7, comment, and queue it only so that I won't forget;
>  - I attend to other topics;
>  - I start the day's integration cycle, merging topics to the
>    integration branches, maint, master, next and pu;
>  - You reroll v8 and post it;
>  - I may not notice v8, or I may notice v8 but think it is not
>    worth to discard the integration work so far only to replace
>    v7 with v8.
>  - The integration result is pushed out.
> 
> A reminder is very much appreciated, but on the other hand it is not
> something unusual.  It happens all the time, and I usually am aware
> of it ;-)
> 
> Thanks.

Thanks for explaining how this process works.

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Jeremiah Mahler
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http://github.com/jmahler