On Monday 29 September 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:06:19PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > On Monday 29 September 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > drivers/{i2c/chips => gpio}/twl4030-gpio.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >
> > Best to avoid sending this type of patch except as backup
> > to a git pull request ... it's unusable to folk who use
> > quilt and thus don't have access to GIT extensions.
> >
> > Where "unusable" means "can't apply the patch".
>
> The good thing with the git extensions for rename detection is that we
> really see what has changed when you renamed the file and that's what
> really matters, right ?
That's not all that matters, although I certainly liked being
able to see that specific diff and confirm "yes, that's the
stuff I had intended to change".
A more basic point of posting patches to lists is that they be
usable for testing. And the git rename stuff prevents that.
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