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Fast-forward merges

Posted Feb 12, 2009 15:09 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: How patches get into the mainline by jwboyer
Parent article: How patches get into the mainline

In fact, that's why the article expends a paragraph on the problem of fast-forward merges. The information is simply lost in that case, and there's really not much that can be done about it.

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Fast-forward merges

Posted Feb 13, 2009 1:55 UTC (Fri) by junkio (subscriber, #5743) [Link]

True, but you can probably notice the committer information is different between the parent commit and the child commit. Linus publishes his tip, David S Miller builds on top and gives Linus a pull request, and Linus fast-forwards. Then these commits brought in to Linus's repository via Dave's repository will record Dave as the committer, not Linus.

Fast-forward merges

Posted Feb 13, 2009 2:22 UTC (Fri) by jwboyer (guest, #23296) [Link]

Ugh. Apparently my brain skipped that paragraph when reading the article.

I blame it on the fact that a very pretty graph is placed rather close and it's shininess distracted my brain.

Sorry for the superfluous comment (twice now!).