From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
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 22:36:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4147C6D6.30508@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915014711.GA30607@schnapps.adilger.int>
Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Consider using a source-control tool next time ;-/.
We used a source control tool. Its just not very useful when people do a port
from one kernel version to the next and submit it as one giant patch against the
new kernel rather than new versions of the original individual patches.
I'm the one planning how to avoid this problem in our next development cycle.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 4:36 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
2004-09-15 1:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-09-15 4:36 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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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