Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 
> > Even so, it's easy, to I'll ask him to test 2.6.14, 2.6.14-git1, and
> > (tonight's upcoming) 2.6.14-git2 (with my latest pull included) to see if
> > anything breaks.
> 
> Side note: one of the downsides of the new "merge lots of stuff early in 
> the development series" approach is that the first few daily snapshots end 
> up being _huge_. 
> 
> So the -git1 and -git2 patches are/will be very big indeed.
> 
> For example, patch-2.6.14-git1 literally ended up being a megabyte 
> compressed. Right now my diff to 2.6.14 (after just two days) is 1.6MB 
> compressed.
> 

However there's usually little overlap between the subsystems trees - with
a net update, a USB update, a SCSI update and an ia64 update it's usually
pretty obvious which one caused a particular regression.

And given that the size of each individual subsystem update is unaltered,
it doesn't really matter whether or not they all came on the same day.

The individual -mm-only patches tend to be more scattered around the tree,
which is why I send them as batches of 100-200 every couple of days: to get
a bit of separation in the -git snapshots.  This hasn't actually proven to
be very useful, though.