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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off the incremental diff robot
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:22:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110601062225.GA4705@localhost.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE402BD.4060407@zytor.com>

On Mon 2011-05-30 13:49:01, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/30/2011 12:45 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:03:03PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> With the v3.0 name change I was looking over what might break, and I'm
> >> seriously considering turning off the incremental diff robot on
> >> kernel.org.  It's not clear to me that it is actually useful anymore,
> >> with git and all.
> > 
> > What is the incremental diff robot?
> > 
> > Does it make the patches between 2.6.x to 2.6.x+1?
> > 
> 
> No, but it generates the patches between, say, 2.6.x.y and 2.6.x.y+1 or
> 2.6.x-rcy and 2.6.x-rcy+1.  Anything in an "incr" directory.

-git1 to -git2 diffs are probably not useful.

2.6.39.1 to 2.6.39.2 diffs are useful IMO - people using stable
kernels do not use git.

I'm using -rc1 to -rc2 diffs. Useful :-).			Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30 19:03 Turning off the incremental diff robot H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-30 19:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-05-30 20:10   ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-30 20:49   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-31 12:38     ` Heiko Carstens
2011-05-31 12:49       ` Steven Rostedt
2011-06-01  6:22     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2011-05-31 19:43 ` [kernel.org users] " Pavel Machek
2011-05-31 20:04   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-31 20:13     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-31 20:31       ` Pavel Machek
2011-05-31 19:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-05-31 20:13   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-01  8:43   ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2011-06-01 15:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-01 13:09 ` Jean Delvare
2011-06-01 13:34   ` Alexey Dobriyan

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