From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751453AbWAKMgu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:36:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751461AbWAKMgu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:36:50 -0500 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.204]:1291 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751446AbWAKMgs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:36:48 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JP+1ZVhP2w5UqNT71fmf4Ocf/utKrSYekqIaskYs59u6tYJJUNgpe1aHvMomvpxS6YKh51mfpq4p/hSRzKjscCev3WkVYTHexU2tZb0E5clPN6InwNkts7mqxaUVGCtYH3Mka4Duj4J4Pg27RypileI5BKLSUkVC76n0vY5DsC4= Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30601110436p286cfacap6618067c32e22a32@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:36:48 +0100 From: Paolo Ciarrocchi To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: why no -mm git tree? Cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060110231818.6164dba7.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060111055616.GA5976@localhost.localdomain> <20060110224451.44c9d3da.akpm@osdl.org> <20060111070043.GA7858@localhost.localdomain> <20060110231818.6164dba7.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/11/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. Andew, did you consider Stacked GIT as an alternative to quilt ? -- Paolo