On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 08:25 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:10, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 07:20:45AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > > > > I've also split the one patch that most people see into what is > > > currently about 225 smaller patches, each adding only one small part, am > > > writing descriptions for them all and am preparing to build a git tree > > > from it. > > > > That's great, I didn't know you were doing this. > > > > I'd recommend using quilt instead of git for something like this, > > because the odds that you will need to change something in patch number > > 132 out of 225 is pretty good :) > > Yeah. :) I actually wrote my own 'makepatch' script long before I ever > heard of quilt, and am still using that. It lets me do the same sort of > thing. Unfortunately I tend to accumulate further changes at the end of > the series and then have to shift them back into the right place. It > would be nice to be able to automate that :) patch-utils have a 'movepatch' option... which flips 2 patches in order, even when they overlap.
