Re: bug-introducing patches

[Al Viro]

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 10:41:56PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Between v4.17-rc1 and v4.17-rc3, there are 660 non-merge commits, of which
>   - 245 carry a Fixes tag,
>   - 196 carry a CC stable,
>   - 395 contain the string "fix".
> (non-mutually exclusive)

BTW, what about situations when we have a fix naturally split into
a series of 2-3 massaging equivalent transformations + one-liner fix
in the resulting tree?