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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: offtopic: how to break huge patch into smaller independent patches?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:24:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <414799D1.7050609@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <119340000.1095209242@flay>

Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> If the changes are in fairly independant files, just vi'ing the diff is
> normally very effective. If they're all intertangled, then starting again
> from scratch is prob easier ;-)

Unfortunately I've got over 550 files being changed, in probably about 50 
conceptual areas.

It's not going to be fun.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-14 19:48 offtopic: how to break huge patch into smaller independent patches? Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 20:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 20:12 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-14 22:12   ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-09-16 21:11   ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-09-16 21:21     ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-15  0:20 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-15  0:47   ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-15  1:24     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-09-15  1:47       ` Andreas Dilger
2004-09-15  4:36         ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-15  5:27           ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-15 11:48             ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-09-15 23:05           ` Andrew Morton

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