From: "Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: "Ian McDonald" <imcdnzl@gmail.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
trivial@kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Revised [PATCH] Documentation: Update to SubmittingPatches
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:38:23 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP11D76F1C8E40096264A62CAE240@CEZ.ICE> (raw)
Message-ID: <46118.10.10.10.28.1136943503.squirrel@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060111005721.GA29663@stusta.de>
On Tue, January 10, 2006 7:57 pm, Adrian Bunk said:
>> -Use "diff -up" or "diff -uprN" to create patches.
>> +You can use git-diff(1) or git-format-patch(1) which makes your life
>> easy. If
>> +you want it to be more difficult then carry on reading.
>>...
>
> IMHO, this doesn't make much sense:
>
> The average patch submitter does _not_ use git in any way - and there's
> no reason why he should.
>
Git is an efficient and convenient way to track the mainline kernel. The
number of submitters using it is significant enough to mention it as an
option for creating patches.
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-20 21:43 Revised [PATCH] Documentation: Update to SubmittingPatches Ian McDonald
2006-01-11 0:57 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] ` <46118.10.10.10.28.1136943503.squirrel@linux1>
2006-01-11 1:38 ` Sean [this message]
2006-01-12 2:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-11 1:54 ` Adrian Bunk
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