Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:49:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Perhaps you need to switch to using quilt.  This is the main reason why
> > > I use it.
> > 
> > Btw, on that note: if some quilt user can send an "annotated history file" 
> > of their quilt usage, it's something that git really can do, and I'll see 
> > if I can merge (or rather, coax Junio to merge) the relevant part of stgit 
> > to make it possible to just basically get "quilt behaviour" for the parts 
> > of a git tree that you haven't pushed out yet.
> 
> Ted's description matches mine (keep quilt tree in git, edit changelog
> entries, rebase on newer kernel versions, etc.)  I can go into details
> if needed.

Ack. Same for PS3 and m68k (except I don't have the m68k patches in git (yet)).

Two issues with using quilt:
  1. Sometimes a patch still applies after it was integrated upstream,
  2. Sometimes it's a lot of work to fixup the patches after an upstream
     change. I wrote a script to do a tree-way-merge in case of a
     conflict, but I haven't really tested it yet (not suitable big
     conflict has happened since ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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