Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-01T06:15:28Z

On Thursday 2008-05-01 00:10, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> Andrew, the latter thing is a very good point. For me personally, the fact
>> that -mm is not available via git is the major obstacle for trying your
>> tree more frequently than just a few times per year.
>
>Every -mm release if available via git://, as described in the release
>announcements.
[...]
>> How difficult it
>> would be to switch to git for you?
>
>Fatal, I expect. A tool which manages source-code files is just the wrong
>paradigm. I manage _changes_ against someone else's source files.

Would you mind using stgit? That you way have the queue patch
functionality, yet a simple git-push -f will send the whole
patch stack over to a repo (without the stgit bits that is),
leaving what looks like a regular tree with just lots of
recent commits. Does not even need extra scripts to do a
patchset->git conversion.

>> For busy (or lazy) people like myself, the big problem with linux-next are
>> the frequent merge breakages, when pulling the tree stops with "you are in
>> the middle of a merge conflict".
>
>Really? Doesn't Stephen handle all those problems? It should be a clean
>fetch each time?

Indeed, assuming the remote is set up and you have a local branch,
`git reset --hard mm/master` after a fetch is the thing.
But be sure not to have any changed files.