Re: 2.6.12-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> > One could go on at length as to why this mistake is so easy to make
> > when you're using CVS, but what it boils down to is that these
> > projects are using the wrong paradigm.  They're maintaining files,
> > whereas they should be maintaining *changes* to files.
> 
> My point exactly. You seem to excuse them for providing broken patches
> because they use the wrong tools to do the job in the first place,

No, I'm just saying...

> If CVS doesn't work, let's not use it.

Agree.

> There are other tools out there which will do the job just fine (one of
> them being quilt [1], which makes my own job so much easier since I'm
> using it, thanks to its various authors and contributors).
> 
> [1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/

That works.  So does git.