[U-Boot-Users] Pull request u-boot-blackfin.git

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <200802231909.43013.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > You want the stuff to go in, so please make it easy for us to review
> > it.
> 
> if you force us to use the mailing list (which is fine), then it should be

This is the rules we agreed on. See
http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/DevelopmentProcess and
http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/Patches

> easy to use the mailing list (which if i recall from the last time this came 
> up, you arent going to change).

What do you mean? The size limit? We have a soft-limit of 40 k and a
hard limit of 100k and a description for exceptions in
http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/Patches

But this doesn't save you from splitting your changes into small,
orthogonal pieces.

> > > so for all Blackfin patches, i'll post them and people may review them,
> > > but you wont merge them until i put them into my tree for you to pull ?
> >
> > Correct - except that you already have  those  patches  in  some  git
> > repository,  because otherwise you could not use git-format-patch and
> > git-send-email to prepare resp. to send the patches.
> 
> i'm not sure what you're trying to say.  of course git-format-patch only works 
> on patches that have been committed to a repo.

I tried to answer your question - you  asked  "you  wont  merge  them
until  i put them into my tree" and I confirmed this (as this is what
a pull request from a custodian means). Your question seemed to imply
that this was additional effort for you, so I tried to  explain  that
it  ain't,  as  you will already have such a repository ready to pull
from (or rather to push into the custodia's repo from  where  I  will
pull)  because you needed it to send the patches to the mailing list,
and without sending patches first you cannot send a pull request.

Sorry if this sounds complicated. See
http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/DevelopmentProcess for details.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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