Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

From: Daniel Phillips (news-innominate.list.linux.kernel@innominate.de)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 13:08:15 EST

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Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> 4. If the robot likes the patch, it will create a unique identifier
> (i.e. "KP7562") and prepend a log entry to the body of the patch:
>
> --- linux/Documentation/patch-log Tue Aug 29 17:24:37 2000
> +++ linux/Documentation/patch-log Tue Aug 29 17:24:44 2000
> @@ -1 +1,3 @@
> +Applied patch KP7562 (2000/08/30)
> + Synopsis: <short description> (<author>)
> +

Marking the patch 'Applied' before it's actually applied is
confusing. How about just:

    --- linux/Documentation/patch-log Tue Aug 29 17:24:37 2000
    +++ linux/Documentation/patch-log Tue Aug 29 17:24:44 2000
    @@ -1 +1,3 @@
    +Patch KP7562 (2000/08/30)
    + Synopsis: <short description> (<author>)
    +

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Daniel
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