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

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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Starting with the changes after today's push, you shouldn't see this
issue any longer.

josh
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