Hi Theodore,

On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:51:23 -0400 "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Look at git as an example; everyone uses git because it is clearly the
> superior solution, and it made maintainers' lives easier.  But for a
> long time, Andrew Morton's -mm patch queue was maintained outside of
> git, and in fact, was accessible via ftp.

It still is maintained with quilt and accessible via http (no ftp any
more).  I have to import it into git branches in order to include it
in linux-next.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell