On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:37:18 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and AFS. > > > > <fercrissake> > > > > Not interested. Please go learn quilt, send incremental patches. > > What's quilt able to do that StGIT can't? AFAICT from quilt's manpage, it > can't mail incremental patches, so how does it help anyway? > It was just a suggestion. Please: - test the patches which are presently in -mm. I don't even know if they work, and we prefer to send Linus working stuff. - Send fine-grained incremental patches. It's OK to do complete replacement patchsets when the code is new, but this stuff is supposed to be stabilised. It took me quite a lot of time to extract the incremental patches out of try#12 and I don't want to do it again, plus it's just another step in which errors can be introduced. Why incremental patches? - So we can see what changed and don't have to re-review the whole thing - So the recipient doesn't have to re-fix the same pile of rejects each time. - So fixes which came in via other sources don't get lost. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
