From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, sam@ravnborg.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] FRV: Move to arch/frv/include/asm/
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:39:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090409183909.GF26366@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904091120560.4583@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:26:49AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I think a lot of SCM's parse diffs internally, so people are still going
> to have to live with legacy patches.
Frankly, once distributed patch(1) understands those, it becomes a problem
of other SCMs. And yes, I realize that they might want to do their
internal magic for tracking renames. Tough - even without that they wouldn't
be worse off than if they got a full "delete this file, create that file"
kind of patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-09 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 16:32 [PATCH 1/2] FRV: Use <asm-generic/pgtable.h> in NOMMU mode David Howells
2009-04-09 16:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] FRV: Move to arch/frv/include/asm/ David Howells
2009-04-09 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-09 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-09 18:13 ` Al Viro
2009-04-09 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-09 18:39 ` Al Viro [this message]
2009-04-09 18:28 ` patch(1) and git -M output (Re: [PATCH 2/2] FRV: Move to arch/frv/include/asm/) Al Viro
2009-04-09 22:06 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-04-09 23:21 ` Al Viro
2009-04-09 21:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] FRV: Move to arch/frv/include/asm/ David Howells
2009-04-09 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-09 21:23 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-04-09 21:51 ` David Howells
2009-04-09 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-09 23:24 ` Fix for StGIT David Howells
2009-04-09 23:21 [PATCH 1/2] FRV: Use <asm-generic/pgtable.h> in NOMMU mode David Howells
2009-04-09 23:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] FRV: Move to arch/frv/include/asm/ David Howells
2009-04-09 23:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-09 23:38 ` David Howells
2009-04-09 23:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-10 1:06 ` David Howells
2009-04-10 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-09 23:25 ` David Howells
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