From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: qiyong@fc-cn.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why no -mm git tree?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:11:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060111091125.716bfcfc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30601110436p286cfacap6618067c32e22a32@mail.gmail.com>
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ah. If you're suggesting that the -mm git tree have _patches_ under git,
> > and the way of grabbing the -mm tree is to pull everything and to then
> > apply all the patches under the patches/ directory then yeah, that would
> > work.
> >
> > But my tree at any random point in time is a random piece of
> > doesn't-even-compile-let-alone-run crap, believe me. Often not all the
> > patches even apply. I don't think there's much point in exposing people to
> > something like that.
>
> Andew,
> did you consider Stacked GIT as an alternative to quilt ?
I looked at the web page - stgit seems to be broken-out patches
revision-controlled under git. I don't think that affects any of the
considerations I've outlined?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 5:56 why no -mm git tree? Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-11 6:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-11 6:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 7:00 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-11 7:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 12:36 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-01-11 17:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-12 16:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
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