[PATCH] docs: process: drop git snapshots from applying-patches.rst

[PATCH] docs: process: drop git snapshots from applying-patches.rst

[Randy Dunlap]

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Drop all references to git daily snapshots of Linux mainline git tree
since they are no longer generated.

Drop the "Last update" info since 'git log' is a better source of that
info and since the Last update date is not being updated.

Yes, I read that this file is obsolete, but it still has some useful
information in it.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
---
 Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst |   43 -------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 42 deletions(-)

--- lnx-413-rc7.orig/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
+++ lnx-413-rc7/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ Applying Patches To The Linux Kernel
 Original by:
 	Jesper Juhl, August 2005
 
-Last update:
-	2016-09-14
-
 .. note::
 
    This document is obsolete.  In most cases, rather than using ``patch``
@@ -344,7 +341,7 @@ possible.
 
 This is a good branch to run for people who want to help out testing
 development kernels but do not want to run some of the really experimental
-stuff (such people should see the sections about -git and -mm kernels below).
+stuff (such people should see the sections about -next and -mm kernels below).
 
 The -rc patches are not incremental, they apply to a base 4.x kernel, just
 like the 4.x.y patches described above. The kernel version before the -rcN
@@ -380,44 +377,6 @@ Here are 3 examples of how to apply thes
 	$ mv linux-4.7.3 linux-4.8-rc5		# rename the kernel source dir
 
 
-The -git kernels
-================
-
-These are daily snapshots of Linus' kernel tree (managed in a git
-repository, hence the name).
-
-These patches are usually released daily and represent the current state of
-Linus's tree. They are more experimental than -rc kernels since they are
-generated automatically without even a cursory glance to see if they are
-sane.
-
--git patches are not incremental and apply either to a base 4.x kernel or
-a base 4.x-rc kernel -- you can see which from their name.
-A patch named 4.7-git1 applies to the 4.7 kernel source and a patch
-named 4.8-rc3-git2 applies to the source of the 4.8-rc3 kernel.
-
-Here are some examples of how to apply these patches::
-
-	# moving from 4.7 to 4.7-git1
-
-	$ cd ~/linux-4.7			# change to the kernel source dir
-	$ patch -p1 < ../patch-4.7-git1		# apply the 4.7-git1 patch
-	$ cd ..
-	$ mv linux-4.7 linux-4.7-git1		# rename the kernel source dir
-
-	# moving from 4.7-git1 to 4.8-rc2-git3
-
-	$ cd ~/linux-4.7-git1			# change to the kernel source dir
-	$ patch -p1 -R < ../patch-4.7-git1	# revert the 4.7-git1 patch
-						# we now have a 4.7 kernel
-	$ patch -p1 < ../patch-4.8-rc2		# apply the 4.8-rc2 patch
-						# the kernel is now 4.8-rc2
-	$ patch -p1 < ../patch-4.8-rc2-git3	# apply the 4.8-rc2-git3 patch
-						# the kernel is now 4.8-rc2-git3
-	$ cd ..
-	$ mv linux-4.7-git1 linux-4.8-rc2-git3	# rename source dir
-
-
 The -mm patches and the linux-next tree
 =======================================
 

Re: [PATCH] docs: process: drop git snapshots from applying-patches.rst

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:40:39 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> Drop all references to git daily snapshots of Linux mainline git tree
> since they are no longer generated.
> 
> Drop the "Last update" info since 'git log' is a better source of that
> info and since the Last update date is not being updated.
> 
> Yes, I read that this file is obsolete, but it still has some useful
> information in it.

Applied, thanks.

If we keep hacking pieces out of this document, maybe finally we'll get to
the point where it's empty and people will let me delete it :)

jon