From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one? Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:11:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20050417211116.F13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20050417162448.A13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050417195742.D13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050417205149.E13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 17 22:14:19 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNG9k-0007QX-JD for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:14:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261490AbVDQURq (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:17:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261481AbVDQUNk (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:13:40 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:15624 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261464AbVDQULW (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:11:22 -0400 Received: from flint.arm.linux.org.uk ([2002:d412:e8ba:1:201:2ff:fe14:8fad]) by caramon.arm.linux.org.uk with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.41) id 1DNG6v-0008Qn-EQ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:11:17 +0100 Received: from rmk by flint.arm.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.41) id 1DNG6u-0006tD-8O; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:11:16 +0100 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@osdl.org on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:08:51PM -0700 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:08:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: > > This will (and does) do exactly what I want. I'll also read into the > > above a request that you want it in forward date order. 8) > > No, I actually don't _think_ I care. In many ways I'm more used to > "reverse date order", because that's usually how you view a changelog > (with a pager, and most recent changes at the top). > > Which one makes sense when asking me to merge? I don't know, and I don't > think it really even matters, but maybe we can add a "for now" to whatever > decision you end up coming to? It's trivial to change - it's either sort -n or sort -nr ! I'll pick the reverse format so that we generate the changelog in the order which people have come to expect from our previous set of tools. Consistency with existing practises is a good thing at this point. -- Russell King