Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1

Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06T16:11:53Z

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 16:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> We haven't been using git to manage ext4 so far, although in hindsight
> it probably would have made things easier. I'm assuming that you're
> just suggesting this for educational purposes and that git will handle
> the patches that Andrew picked up into -mm just fine.

Well, also that even if you're not using git, what any random person can
do is to actually just import the current state into git, and do the
simple "git diff -C" thing to get the nicer diff.

One of the advantages about git is that "intent" doesn't matter. Git only
tracks cold, hard data. So if you copied a file, git doesn't care one whit
whether you _tell_ it that you copied it or not: it will purely look at
the end result, and say "you copied it" if the file looks the same.

> I could re-generate the patches that do the copies from git, but I don't
> believe it will be that beneficial at this point.

The only advantage (but I'd argue that it's a real one, and very possibly
worth it) is that when this gets sent to me (or anybody else) by email, it
can be sent in a format that is actually readable, instead of sending it
as a huge patch that doesn't actually talk about what it does..

Linus