From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 08:10:25 +0100
Subject: A bit of quilt
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:54:16PM +0000, Amit Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> As I know quilt is used by maintainers. But kernel source code is
> maintained in git repo. So I want to know how git and quilt work
> together.

It's up to the developer, but I use it in different ways for different
kernel trees.  I use it for keeping the stable kernel patches in, before
those trees are released, you can see my git tree of quilt patches here:
	https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/

> In mutt I have seen that a mail sent by Mr. GregKH has  quilt mail as user
> agent and git-send-email as x-mailer. It means he is using
> git-send-email as a backend for quilt mail.

Yes.

> Last but not least, I think if a developer starts using quilt to
> maintain his diferent versions of a patch, it will ease a maintainer
> job.

Why would it matter for a maintainer at all?  You use email to send a
patch to a maintainer, if it was created using git or quilt does not
matter one bit.

thanks,

greg k-h