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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating and sending patch without git
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:37:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130724073709.GU5585@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130723213741.GS5636@mwanda>

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:10:07PM +0530, Kumar Gaurav wrote:
> Right now i have created a git repository with the tarball i had
> downloaded (main repository is still getting downloaded). I'm
> working using that. i hope it'll work well for me till git completes
> cloning the remote repository.
> Thanks for your reply.

Yep.  That should work for sending git emails, but I really can't
stress enough how quickly the tar ball will go out of date.  You
can't actually use it for devel work because it will just annoy
people.

I live in Africa and have somewhat crap internet as well...

regards,
dan carpenter


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-24  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-23 21:37 Creating and sending patch without git Dan Carpenter
2013-07-24  6:52 ` Kumar Gaurav
2013-07-24  7:37 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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