2006/1/10, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 06:57:24PM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > > > > > You make sure you have the two trees and diff them. > > > > They 're both in git and typically you could do that only using git. > > > > > > Have you ever tried what you're talking about or is it a guess ? > > > For example, let's say that there's a bug introduced when merging > > > Linus tree with mips branch. How do you easily "bisect" in order to do > > > a binary seek of this bug ? > > > > I was about to mention the git incompatibility as I gave you the first > > answer. It's true what you say and I also find it annoying. That's why I use > > Linus tree. > > I cannot, though, complaint to Ralph about this practice. It seems that he has > > done his best to preserve the CVS history of his tree. We can only thank him > > for that. It is just a lot of work to trim the tree and make it > > Linus-parallel. > > There is also things that I don't know about git, so I won't jump to > > conclusions yet (as to whether it is feasible to merge with Linus). > > It is possible to keep both Linus's and the lmo tree in the same > repository with a _little_ care. I do that all the time. When compressed > this will result in a bloat of just about 10-20MB. > It would be great to be a little bit more explicit by giving some _little_ examples ! Why not enlighting us directly instead of being so vague. Thanks Ivan
