Re: 2.6.16-rc2-mm1 patches don't apply

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:30:25PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc2/2.6.16-rc2-mm1/broken-out/linus.patch
> > applies cleanly to
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.16-rc2.tar.bz2
> 
> Indeed.  That combination does work.
> 
> And that's the same linus.patch as I extracted from:
> 
>   ~akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc2//2.6.16-rc2-mm1/2.6.16-rc2-mm1-broken-out.tar.bz2
> 
> So no problem with you linus.patch.
> 
> The difference -might- be a different linux-2.6.16-rc2 with the above
> than with hg's http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6, with the command "hg
> co 19933", which is the release tagged v2.6.16-rc2:
> 
>     changeset:   19933:6a79f5a2de38
>     tag:         v2.6.16-rc2
>     user:        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
>     date:        Fri Feb  3 14:03:08 2006 +0800
>     summary:     Linux v2.6.16-rc2
> 
> My current suspicions ... a combination of:
> 
>  1) a congenital mental defect that causes me to find git difficult to use,
>     and led to me thinking something had failed when it had not, and
>  2) further fallout from some apparent burp in the production of the hg
>     (mercurial) linux trees that Matt fixed today.

The git->hg conversion script may be borked right now. The upgrade of
master.kernel.org to AMD64 happened to coincide with a new Mercurial
release with a new convert-repo script which may have introduced a
bug. I'll try to sort it out tomorrow.

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