From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.2-rc1
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:18:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBAB5F7.80000@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzytqbGcOzWvYAo-EnJCeK5mFqdCF5OjMTeM5UBfeyCXw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/07/2011 06:10 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Which brings me to a question I already asked on G+ - do people really
> need the old-fashioned patches? The -rc1 patch is about 22MB gzip-9'd,
> and part of the reason is that all those renames cause big
> delete/create diffs. We *could* use git rename patches, but then you'd
> have to apply them with "git apply" rather than the legacy "patch"
> executables. But as it is, the patch is almost a third of the size of
> the tar-ball, which makes me wonder if there's even any point to such
> a big patch?
[email was too long/noisy, sorry for the delayed reply.]
[should I admit that I don't follow you on g+ ?]
Do you mean files like patch-3.2-rc1.gz or .bz2 or .xz?
Yes, I use them, but if I am the only user of them, I'll get over it.
--
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-08 2:10 Linux 3.2-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2011-11-08 3:12 ` Al Viro
2011-11-08 4:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-08 10:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-11-08 6:50 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-11-08 13:43 ` Udo Steinberg
2011-11-08 14:47 ` Ming Lei
2011-11-08 22:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-11-08 14:53 ` Alessandro Suardi
2011-11-08 20:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-08 20:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-08 20:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-08 14:55 ` Nick Bowler
2011-11-08 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-09 7:40 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-11-09 7:40 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-11-09 12:03 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-10 11:57 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-10 11:57 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-08 19:06 ` Thomas Bächler
2011-11-08 23:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-11-08 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-09 8:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-11-09 13:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-11-09 14:20 ` Paul Rolland
2011-11-09 23:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-11-09 17:18 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2011-11-09 17:28 ` Josh Boyer
2011-11-22 1:41 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-22 16:10 ` Josh Boyer
2011-11-22 18:05 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-22 18:29 ` Boaz Harrosh
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