On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:39:33PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Karel Zak (kzak@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
> > My wish is "git rebase" always after upgrade to new upstream code.
> > The current "make prep" is nightmare...
> >
> > See Linux kernel. That's normal that people maintain their patches
> > outside official tree(s) for pretty long time. The modern VCS is the
> > right tool for this job.
> >
> > "separate out our changes from what upstream has" .. is definitely
> > no problem.
>
> Well, it depends on what you're doing. DaveJ tried to move to git
> pulling the various things we need for our kernel - it ended up
> being a pretty big problem getting something sane out of it, and he
> ended up going back to patches.
Yes, I remember a discussion about it. I'm not sure if this one
DaveJ's attempt is enough to completely reject this idea ;-)
Karel
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