linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2007 13:33:33 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge

On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:25:02 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> I don't think re-generating the diff is wrong, and in fact I think you 
> have to do it, but I think Andrew should use "--fuzz=0" or at least 
> "--fuzz=1" instead of the default 2. Yeah, it obviously causes more patch 
> application failures, and it can be very irritating if *most* of those 
> patches would have applied cleanly and correctly with --fuzz=2, but 
> --fuzz=2 really is very dangerous. It literally just needed two lines to 
> match in the wrong place (and as mentioned, those two lines can be 
> trivial, like in the example - totally empty, even!)

Yeah I played with that a while back and --fuzz=0 just broken everything.

--fuzz=1 seems acceptable though.  I'll use that from now on.

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