Re: [PATCH 18/18] Straight file moves

Linus Torvalds
2007-03-14T15:44:57Z

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> Here's a list of files that were moved from either i386 or x86_64 over
> to the arch/x86 directory.

Well, this means that your patch series doesn't actually *compile* as a
series.

In other words, it's a pointless series, since the individual patches just
generate a non-working kernel, until they have all been applied.

So I really meant that each patch should be generated with "git diff -M",
and you'd have a series of patches that are all working and move one part
of the tree at a time (with Makefile changes etc integrated).

Also, in case you didn't notice, it's also perfectly fine to have
"impure" moves, ie a move that not only renames something, but also
changes something (commonly the comments at the top of the file). Maybe
you simply didn't have anything like that, but I thought I'd mention it
just in case you tried to avoid it on purpose.

The reason I really want the whole series to be compileable is that
especially with a lot of people using "git bisect", if you have something
that doesn't compile in the middle, not only does it show that the series
wasn't a series, it also means that you cannot automate the bisect and you
need manual intervention.

Linus