From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:17:48 -0800 Received: from u-233-19.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.19.233]:64752 "EHLO dea.waldorf-gmbh.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:17:22 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1LF4IM22028; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:04:18 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:04:18 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Jim Freeman Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: sync plea Message-ID: <20010221160418.A21995@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010221060711.A26654@sovereign.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010221060711.A26654@sovereign.org>; from jfree@sovereign.org on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:07:11AM -0700 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:07:11AM -0700, Jim Freeman wrote: > I have a farm of MIPS, PPC, and IA32 machines that I need to > keep running from a common current source tree. > > The recent mips update into 2.4.2pre2 (thankyouthankyouthankyou...) > has helped in this task, but the diff between any 2.4.2pre[n>=2] or > 2.4.1-ac[n>=9] tree vs the MIPS cvs tree is still huge, and painful > to cull through to wind up with a sane mips patch (should be fairly > small since the update into 2.4.2pre2) against a 2.4.*{pre*|-ac*} tree. > > A sync of mips cvs to any 2.4.1{pre*|-ac*} kernel post 2.4.2pre2 > would be of great use, but I don't know how much pain that entails > for the maintainers. > > In lieu of that, can anyone clue me in to newbie tricks (CVS or > otherwise) for syncing 2 trees less painfully than culling diffs? Imagine, that's what we do on a daily base. The most easy receipe to make diffs less painfull is half a gig of RAM which brings time for diffing two kernel trees down to ~ 2s on an Origin or decent PC. Unfortunately Linus dropped piles of additional patches I sent to him. That's the standard way this works, so just wait ... Ralf