Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

If Greg KH ever writes a book about his work as the stable kernel maintainer, it should be titled “Everyone must upgrade” (or it could be a Dr. Who fanfic about Cybermen, I guess). Today, I'm going to borrow a leaf out of that non-existent book to loudly proclaim that all patch submissions must include base-commit info.

— Konstantin Ryabitsev

In the past we would find Windowsisms in the BIOSes and get really annoyed that we had to work around them. Now there are Linuxisms in the BIOS, that's not any better.

— Linus Walleij

gpio devices, sigh. It's like wrapping a scarf around your head and crawling under a porch or deck. You never know what surprises you'll put your hands onto.

— Theo de Raadt

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Quotes of the week - re: base-commit thing

Posted Feb 13, 2020 22:59 UTC (Thu) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667) [Link] (1 responses)

Another day, another time I'm shocked at how leisurely git treats merges/actually ending up with a filesystem that someone has ever seen before/written.

Does 'format-patch' have a compatibility constraint against including the base commit by default?

Quotes of the week - re: base-commit thing

Posted Feb 15, 2020 21:06 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Eh, probably a transitional thing, just like lots of other options which improve usage when set. format.useAutoBase exists and I set it once I became aware of it, so I'm good personally. But changing its default could probably be discussed.