From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750893AbWAKHSh (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:18:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750864AbWAKHSg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:18:36 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:6860 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750728AbWAKHSg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:18:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:18:18 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Coywolf Qi Hunt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why no -mm git tree? Message-Id: <20060110231818.6164dba7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060111070043.GA7858@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060111055616.GA5976@localhost.localdomain> <20060110224451.44c9d3da.akpm@osdl.org> <20060111070043.GA7858@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:44:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > > > > > Why don't use a -mm git tree? > > > > > > > Because everthing would take me 100x longer? > > Really? So does Linus? > Linus does a totally different thing from me. He reverts about one patch a month. I drop tens a day. He never _alters_ patches. 2.6.15-mm1 had about 200 patches which modify earlier patches and which get rolled up into the patch-which-they-modify before going upstream. He never alters the order of patches. etc. > > > > I'm looking into generating a pullable git tree for each -mm. Just as a > > convenience for people who can't type "ftp". > > That doesn't help much if it's only for each -mm. > If you make git commits for each each patch merged in, then > we can always run the `current' -mm git tree. Ah. If you're suggesting that the -mm git tree have _patches_ under git, and the way of grabbing the -mm tree is to pull everything and to then apply all the patches under the patches/ directory then yeah, that would work. But my tree at any random point in time is a random piece of doesn't-even-compile-let-alone-run crap, believe me. Often not all the patches even apply. I don't think there's much point in exposing people to something like that.