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Why is Linus Torvalds angry with Github's pull request interface?

story by hrasyid · 2013-09-17 · 9 comments

Re: Linus' rants against PRs: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17

comment by icebraining · 2013-08-04 · in GitHub and my open source life

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Show HN : resolving part of Linus Torvald's problem with github - text wrapping

story by oelmekki · 2013-08-02 · 6 comments

…weak memory model is desirable. [1]: http://www.arm.com/files/downloads/ARMv8_Architecture.pdf [2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

comment by artagnon · 2013-08-01 · in The Belt CPU Architecture

I don't know if this counts, but the linux kernel famously uses a JIT to filter network packets: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/net/b...

comment by thedigitalengel · 2013-07-22 · in Partially Applied Functions in C

Here's the Makefile: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Makefile Here's the changeset: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ad81f0545ef01ea6518...

comment by sampo · 2013-07-15 · in Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups"

…seen discussion with Linus Torvalds about the problems with "pull request" model for his workflow: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...

comment by aeontech · 2013-07-11 · in GitHub Flow in the Browser

…any time you have a few lines of code that look and operate very close to each other. For example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/security/commo... you are writing "cap_capget", you could write three lines, effective…

comment by adamzochowski · 2013-04-29 · in Collection of the best fonts for programming

Linux commit messages are rather detailed and appropriate commit messages: https://github.com/torvalds/linux The Linux source is also very well commented, but C might not be what you're looking for.

comment by username111 · 2013-04-09 · in Looking for well written comments and commit messages

Here's Linus' opinion on Github pull requests https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546... I wonder how critical the HN community would have been if the exchange was with a female programmer? If you read the exchange,…

comment by mkhattab · 2013-01-24 · in Being Wrong on the Internet

…the barrier from minutes to seconds. Hopefully that will be a net positive for the community. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...

comment by h2s · 2013-01-09 · in Create and delete branches

…to pass a judgement on the quality of this commit message. Fortunately, he isn't quick to judge: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... ;)

comment by mixedbit · 2012-12-07 · in Is this a good commit message?

Right, the Linux community is very forgiving of noobs. [1] [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...

comment by mintplant · 2012-11-17 · in Crowding out OpenBSD

here's a more recent rant: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...

comment by leeoniya · 2012-10-04 · in Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009)

…messages: https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/blob/master/README#L1... And more explicitly: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... We have been moving towards commit messages similar to those used in the kernel…

comment by thomseddon · 2012-09-06 · in Rails 3.2 feature: unreadable production logs

https://github.com/facebook/tornado/ https://github.com/django/django https://github.com/git/git/ https://github.com/torvalds/linux

comment by misiti3780 · 2012-08-02 · in Ask HN: Looking for examples of "really great code"?

…connections break? [0] https://github.com/facebook [1] https://github.com/Blizzard/api-wow-docs [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux [3] https://github.com/google

comment by qznc · 2012-07-14 · in The Most Important Social Network: GitHub

…there too?" I'd not be surprised if he makes a permanent move once GitHub fixes a few things: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546... . On the other hand, he is a known control freak.

comment by eevilspock · 2012-07-14 · in The Most Important Social Network: GitHub

…on Github, that crashes every single browser on every platform, so don't even try opening it: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/network)* .

comment by pooriaazimi · 2012-06-02 · in Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

Does it allow you to format your commit messages? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17

comment by ChrisAnn · 2012-05-21 · in GitHub for Windows

After reading this thread https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... (especially this comment), Friend of mine sent to me this article. Maybe it's coincident maybe not. But kind of good response.

comment by xando · 2012-05-18 · in I refuse to tolerate assholes

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I refuse to tolerate assholes

story by xando · 2012-05-18 · 21 comments

…I only went in that direction because I didn't want to believe you were trying to quote mine. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56613... [2] How fitting. Poor text wrapping support bites again. When I pasted the…

comment by natep · 2012-05-14 · in Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

He explains it here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... In particular, "the quality of stuff I have seen from people who use the github web interfaces has been so low that it's not worth my time."

comment by Jare · 2012-05-12 · in Lessons from torvalds/GitHub commits discussion

…the summarized version of what commit-formatting Linus actually wants (for the kernel anyway): https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56637... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56637...

comment by moonlighter · 2012-05-12 · in Lessons from torvalds/GitHub commits discussion

He answered to that: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56637...

comment by vibrunazo · 2012-05-12 · in Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

…a 'git am' compatible patch file complete with the email address that Linus complains is missing ;) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17.patch EDIT: I should note this works on any commit as well. Take this commit from Casbah (the…

comment by rit · 2012-05-11 · in Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

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Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

story by quellhorst · 2012-05-11 · 267 comments

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

comment by 9k9 · 2012-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite projects to follow on GitHub?

(Careful with the link) This page https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/impact freezes FF12 on W7/x64 for several seconds, and then FF asks if to continue running the script or if to stop it. Continuing re-freezes Firefox.

comment by huhtenberg · 2012-04-25 · in Introducing the New GitHub Graphs

…have many commits to see when their active hours are. For instance, this is Linux's punch card: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/punch-card Of course, interesting != useful

comment by Aethaeryn · 2012-04-25 · in Introducing the New GitHub Graphs

…this "structured programming" bullshit. Kernel uses 2 a lot to handle errors like here [1]. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/mm/shmem.c#L99...

comment by kia · 2012-04-24 · in Error handling style in C

>the top OSS projects aren't on GitHub and similar Hmm? https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/rails/rails https://github.com/ry/node https://github.com/jquery/jquery https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap…

comment by funthree · 2012-04-06 · in One hiring filter that works

…and month. Try navigating through which commits where introduced a year ago in a Github repository: https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6/commits/master - it ends in a binary search through page numbers! (You could use the CLI, but that is…

comment by dybber · 2012-03-28 · in Coding Horror: The End of Pagination

…is not needed in the declaration» Someone doesn't understand the value of the "struct" keyword: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

comment by etanol · 2011-10-15 · in From C to C++: A quick reference for aging programmers

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Linus doesn't like GitHub's pull requests

story by samsoffes · 2011-09-07 · 3 comments

…the quality of pull requests, it's unfortunate that a people took this as an opportunity to troll ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/6 ). That will hopefully settle down once this is no longer "news". If not, we'll find a way to a…

comment by rtomayko · 2011-09-06 · in Linus Torvalds Comments About Github

I was wondering how long it would take for this to happen: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/7#issuecomment-200563...

comment by nphase · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub

"Is there some way to just turn off github pull requests? They're all jokes." - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/7#issuecomment-200563...

comment by timf · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub

For anyone pulling the kernel tree from github - here is how you can verify it. linux-2.6 $ git pull git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git linux-2.6 $ git fetch --tags git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git linux-2.6 $ gpg --keyserver…

comment by blinkingled · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub

Has anyone managed to view the Github Impact graph ? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/impact

comment by kuahyeow · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub

Someone discovered a bug... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/issues/1

comment by lee337 · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub

Presumably just Linus playing around with Github? There's been a mirror for some time - https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6 and https://github.com/mirrors/linux

comment by duggan · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub

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Linux is now hosted on GitHub

story by bpierre · 2011-09-05 · 93 comments

…even if you assume that it is an issue at the moment. Edit: Githubs download expierience: https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6 , click on downloads in upper left corner, click 3.0-rc1, downloading 115mb and my bandwidth is saturated at…

comment by VMG · 2011-06-04 · in GitHub, Collaboration, and Haters

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Linux Kernel Coding Style

story by olalonde · 2011-05-30 · 0 comments

https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6 Github hosts mirrors of a few popular open-source projects, which is handy because they have much better source browsing than the alternatives.

comment by Scaevolus · 2011-05-03 · in Why I still don’t contribute to open source

…considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". [1] http://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6/blob/master/COPYING

comment by quadhome · 2010-07-15 · in An analysis of GPLed code in Thesis