On Feb 27, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:32:34AM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: >> Fedora's patched kernel sources in a git repository and then include >> kernel-2.6.38-1.1.fc15.tar.bz2 in the source RPM instead of vanilla >> kernel-2.6.38.tar.bz2 and fifty patches. Red Hat appears to do this >> with RHEL 6's kernel, but their kernel repository is not >> publicly-accessible. >> > > RHEL also never rebases, which means their git tree is virtually linear. I'd say its not even virtually linear, its linear, period. Once a given RHEL major release goes out the door, the kernel tree is never branched or rebased, no git merges, or anything, just a series of linear commits, all done by a single maintainer. Patches aren't pulled from sub-maintainer git trees, they're pulled from a patchwork database, once deemed ready, so the commit history remains 100% linear. -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
