From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751366AbWAKRLv (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:11:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751492AbWAKRLv (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:11:51 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:13294 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751366AbWAKRLv (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:11:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:11:25 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Paolo Ciarrocchi Cc: qiyong@fc-cn.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why no -mm git tree? Message-Id: <20060111091125.716bfcfc.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30601110436p286cfacap6618067c32e22a32@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060111055616.GA5976@localhost.localdomain> <20060110224451.44c9d3da.akpm@osdl.org> <20060111070043.GA7858@localhost.localdomain> <20060110231818.6164dba7.akpm@osdl.org> <4d8e3fd30601110436p286cfacap6618067c32e22a32@mail.gmail.com> 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 Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > > 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. > > Andew, > did you consider Stacked GIT as an alternative to quilt ? I looked at the web page - stgit seems to be broken-out patches revision-controlled under git. I don't think that affects any of the considerations I've outlined?