linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans

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Date:	Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:09:45 +0200
From:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
CC:	Sean <seanlkml@...patico.ca>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	davidsen@....com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> (Of course, once you get really used to git, you use git _anyway_, and 
> then you use cherry-pick and other tools to re-write a cleaned-up version 
> of the thing that you originally screwed up because you didn't know what 
> you were doing. So you _can_ do this too with git, but that doesn't mean 
> that git would necessarily be the best way to do it).
> 
> That said, maybe we could help the "fixup" phases evenmore using git. For 
> example, right now you can do "git cherry-pick" to transfer individual 
> patches, but if you want to combine two commits while cherry-picking, it 
> immediately gets more involved (still quite doable: use cherry-pick 
> multiple times with the "-n" flag, but it's not as obvious any more).
> 

Are there any docs (with examples) on how to work like this? I currently
use StGIT for my patch management, but that has some problems when it
comes to publishing my development tree for others.

Rgds
Pierre

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