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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Backport dependencies helper
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:41:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200331144123.GA24745@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200331140830.GN4189@sasha-vm>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:08:30AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> No, those tools try to do the same thing, but work differently.
> stable-deps attempts to look at context lines surrounding the patch
> itself to guess which other patches might be interesting.

OK!

> While here, I use git-bisect to create a list of commits required to be
> applied before any given commit.

I see, this sounds like a great idea!

Thanks,
Willy

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-31 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-31 12:32 Backport dependencies helper Sasha Levin
2020-03-31 13:44 ` Willy Tarreau
2020-03-31 14:08   ` Sasha Levin
2020-03-31 14:41     ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2020-04-03 14:24 ` Greg KH

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