From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: offtopic: how to break huge patch into smaller independent patches?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:20:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915002023.GD5615@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41474B15.8040302@nortelnetworks.com>
> 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?
dirdiff is a great tool for this. I think its on samba.org somewhere,
but you can definitely find it in debian.
The new version is even better, I think Paul should do a release :)
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 0:29 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
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 [this message]
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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