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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating diff from 2.6.16 from cryptodev-2.6 git tree
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:44:40 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606291943010.12404@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060630023228.GA28850@gondor.apana.org.au>



On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:25:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > The easiest by far is if you only care about a certain sub-directory. 
> > Then, assuming the branch "crypto" is the top-most commit of the cryptodev 
> > repo, just do
> > 
> > 	git diff v2.6.16..crypto -- crypto/
> 
> Yes, you should always do something like this when backporting to make
> sure that you haven't missed patches merged in ways that you didn't
> anticipate.
> 
> Although I'm not aware of any such patches in the time frame that Michal
> has in mind.

Note that this is why

	git log -p --full-diff v2.6.16.. crypto/

is so great. It will show everything that touched that subdirectory, along 
with the incidentals. I think that in this case, that's exactly what 
Michal wants.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-30  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-30  1:18 Creating diff from 2.6.16 from cryptodev-2.6 git tree Michal Ludvig
2006-06-30  1:36 ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-30  2:25   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-30  2:32     ` Herbert Xu
2006-06-30  2:44       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-06-30  3:05         ` Michal Ludvig
2006-06-30  5:45         ` Michal Ludvig
2006-06-30  6:20           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-30  6:28           ` Junio C Hamano

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