Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Jeff Garzik
2002-01-30T08:48:13Z

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:06:15AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> If the "patches-to-linus" list does get implemented, it would probably also
> be fairly easy to automatically match new pre-X->pre-Y diffs against the
> recent patches from the list, and extract most of the information that way.
> (Assuming Linus doesn't modify them too much, or end up taking a lot of
> patches from other sources. A human would probably still have to do at least
> part of it, but it might be an improvement on just putting the whole big
> version diff in the cvs tree as one lump...)

Instead of doing this stuff half-assed, just convince Linus to use BK :)

Jeff