From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: offtopic: how to break huge patch into smaller independent patches?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:12:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914201210.GE13788@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41474B15.8040302@nortelnetworks.com>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:48:37PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
> Its kind of offtopic, but I hoped that someone might have some pointers
> since the kernel developers deal with so many patches.
>
> I've been given a massive kernel patch that makes a whole bunch of
> conceptually independent changes.
>
> Does anyone have any advice on how to break it up into independent patches?
diffsplit will split it into a patch-per-file, which could be
a good start. If you have multiple changes touching the same file
however, things get a bit more fun, and you get to spend a lot
of time in your favorite text editor glueing bits together.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-14 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 19:48 offtopic: how to break huge patch into smaller independent patches? Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 20:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 20:12 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-09-14 22:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-09-16 21:11 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-09-16 21:21 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-15 0:20 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-15 0:47 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-15 1:24 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-15 1:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-09-15 4:36 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-15 5:27 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-15 11:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-09-15 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
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