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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:33:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070514133333.3154d08d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705141218390.6739@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:25:02 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> I don't think re-generating the diff is wrong, and in fact I think you 
> have to do it, but I think Andrew should use "--fuzz=0" or at least 
> "--fuzz=1" instead of the default 2. Yeah, it obviously causes more patch 
> application failures, and it can be very irritating if *most* of those 
> patches would have applied cleanly and correctly with --fuzz=2, but 
> --fuzz=2 really is very dangerous. It literally just needed two lines to 
> match in the wrong place (and as mentioned, those two lines can be 
> trivial, like in the example - totally empty, even!)

Yeah I played with that a while back and --fuzz=0 just broken everything.

--fuzz=1 seems acceptable though.  I'll use that from now on.


      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-14 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-14  9:10 [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-14 18:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-14 19:17   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-14 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-14 20:33   ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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