On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:49:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Perhaps you need to switch to using quilt. This is the main reason why > > > > I use it. > > > > > > Btw, on that note: if some quilt user can send an "annotated history file" > > > of their quilt usage, it's something that git really can do, and I'll see > > > if I can merge (or rather, coax Junio to merge) the relevant part of stgit > > > to make it possible to just basically get "quilt behaviour" for the parts > > > of a git tree that you haven't pushed out yet. > > > > Ted's description matches mine (keep quilt tree in git, edit changelog > > entries, rebase on newer kernel versions, etc.) I can go into details > > if needed. > > Ack. Same for PS3 and m68k (except I don't have the m68k patches in git (yet)). > > Two issues with using quilt: > 1. Sometimes a patch still applies after it was integrated upstream, Add QUILT_PATCH_OPTS="--fuzz=0" to your ~/.quiltrc file. The default is fuzz=2 IIRC which tries to be too clever. I set fuzz to 0 after I got burned by an unnoticed "quilt patched it somewhere else" bug, which took me half a day to figure out. Thanks, tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html