On 10/24/06, Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It seems that I am not the only one having headaches about which patches are applied and which not. I spent a major part yesterday trying to get the set of patches consistent with regard to Dave's/Arnaldo's latest tree.
<snipped> My general philosophy of patching/maintaining it is as follows: - When Dave M hasn't got a revision+1 tree open I just use Linus' tree unless there is good reason. The reason for this is that you don't have to rebase all the time - When Dave M has a revision+1 tree open I use that (e.g. will need to use net 2.6.20 soon I imagine) - Whatever tree I use I use stgit on top of it on a separate branch. I generally "stg export -d -n" to put all patches into subdirectory, "stg pop -a" to pop the patches off, do a "stg pull" and then start applying/deleting patches as I go. - I have been using git apply --check as well which basically mirrors the script of Gerrit's. I publish my patch sets up to http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/dccp/patches and have a file description.txt file there to describe what I have. I can't reiterate enough how much stgit has helped me!! I could put up a git tree if required but is it worth it for the number of patches I do for the effort I would need to put in? I would like to see bug fixes in 2.6.19 too if they are obvious fixes e.g. the one I sent today. I won't get into the debate about other cosmetic ones.... Ian -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
