Re: Fedora kernel git tree: each patch typically gets one line of change everyday

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On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:32:38PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Lo!
> 
> Quoting http://jwboyer.livejournal.com/49254.html
> > […]
> > Since we're rebasing the patches in git, we don't need to do it
> > separately in the Fedora package repo. There's no sense in doing work
> > twice. After some initial renaming of some patches and such, I now
> > use the git tree to generate the patches we add to the spec file by
> > using git format-patch master.. and a script to copy them to the
> > working dir on my machine. This means we always have a nice fresh
> > copy of the patches for that specific upstream base. It does mean
> > that each patch typically gets one line of change (the sha hash of
> > the commit) everyday, but I don't think that's a big deal. This
> > actually saves me time now and it helps keep our patches fairly
> > "clean". They all apply with git-am and most of them have changelogs
> > and such.
> 
> I'm all for making your life easier ;-) But is there maybe some easy way
> to avoid that "one line of change" per patch? Maybe some sed-call that
> removes or modifies the commit id sha1sum when the patches get readded
> to the package repo? It would avoid clutter in the git history and
> commits diffs. I'd welcome that, because I keep a eye on the kernel
> changes via the scm-commits mailing list. And it got a lot harder now to
> see what actually changed. See yourself by comparing these two mails:

OK.  That's a reasonable request.  I'll see what I can do.

josh
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