From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one? Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <1113774736.3884.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050417231959.A30656@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050417235136.B30656@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050418150456.GC12750@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Russell King , David Woodhouse , Git Mailing List , Peter Anvin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 18 17:37:36 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNYJ0-0004ZS-FN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:36:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262117AbVDRPkw (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:40:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262119AbVDRPkw (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:40:52 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:8577 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262117AbVDRPkf (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:40:35 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3IFeHs4001391 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:40:17 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3IFeFBN018357; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:40:16 -0700 To: Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20050418150456.GC12750@kroah.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.35__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:24:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Tools absolutely matter. And it will take time for us to build up that > > kind of helper infrastructure. So being newbie might be part of it, but > > it's the smaller part, I say. Rough interfaces is a big issue. > > Speaking of tools, you had a "dotest" program to apply patches in email > form to a bk tree. And from what I can gather, you've changed that to > handle git archives, right? Yup. It's a git archive at kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/git-tools.git and it seems to work. It's what I've used for all the kernel patches (except for the merge), and it's what I use for the git stuff that shows up as authored by others. Linus