Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] format-patch --signature-file <file>

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 22, 2014, 19:00 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy4xtmyeg.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140522142332.GA15095@hudson.localdomain>

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.