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Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:15:18 +0100
From:	Ivan Korzakow <ivan.korzakow@gmail.com>
To:	"P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr>
Subject: Re: why the early_initcall(au1x00_setup) do not work?
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2006/1/10, P. Christeas <p_christ@hol.gr>:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 6:38 pm, Ivan Korzakow wrote:
> > 2006/1/10, P. Christeas <p_christ@hol.gr>:
>
> > > You make sure you have the two trees and diff them.
> > > They 're both in git and typically you could do that only using git.
> >
> > Have you ever tried what you're talking about or is it a guess ?
> > For example, let's say that there's a bug introduced when merging
> > Linus tree with mips branch. How do you easily "bisect" in order to do
> > a binary seek of this bug ?
>
>  I was about to mention the git incompatibility as I gave you the first
> answer. It's true what you say and I also find it annoying. That's why I use
> Linus tree.
> I cannot, though, complaint to Ralph about this practice. It seems that he has
> done his best to preserve the CVS history of his tree. We can only thank him
> for that. It is just a lot of work to trim the tree and make it
> Linus-parallel.
Why not simply keep CVS repository available for 1% of people willing
to browse the history ? And make life easier for 99% of people willing
to work on 2.6 ... (2.4 work may continue to use CVS too).

Ivan