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From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why no -mm git tree?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:00:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060111070043.GA7858@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060110224451.44c9d3da.akpm@osdl.org>

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:44:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why don't use a -mm git tree?
> >
> 
> Because everthing would take me 100x longer?

Really? So does Linus?

> 
> 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.

Test the -mm patches, not leave them sleeping for most of the time.

> 
> That'll just be a dump of the whole -mm lineup into git.  I don't know how
> workable it'll be - we'll see.
> 

-- 
Coywolf Qi Hunt

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-11  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-11  5:56 why no -mm git tree? Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-11  6:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-11  6:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11  7:00   ` Coywolf Qi Hunt [this message]
2006-01-11  7:18     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 12:36       ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-01-11 17:11         ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-12 16:23           ` J. Bruce Fields

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