Re: Turning off the incremental diff robot

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon May 30 2011 - 16:49:14 EST


On 05/30/2011 12:45 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:03:03PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> With the v3.0 name change I was looking over what might break, and I'm
>> seriously considering turning off the incremental diff robot on
>> kernel.org. It's not clear to me that it is actually useful anymore,
>> with git and all.
>
> What is the incremental diff robot?
>
> Does it make the patches between 2.6.x to 2.6.x+1?
>

No, but it generates the patches between, say, 2.6.x.y and 2.6.x.y+1 or
2.6.x-rcy and 2.6.x-rcy+1. Anything in an "incr" directory.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.

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