linux-kernel - Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

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Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:48:33 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	arjan@...radead.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Ted's description matches mine (keep quilt tree in git, edit changelog
> entries, rebase on newer kernel versions, etc.)  I can go into details
> if needed.

I added some time ago patch history tracking in stgit and you can run
"stg log [--graphical] <patch>" to see all the changes for that patch
(as a list or via gitk). This is done by keeping a separate DAG of
commits linking small changes to a patch.

> I was amazed at how slow stgit was when I tried it out.  I use
> git-quiltimport a lot and I don't think it's any slower than just using
> quilt on its own.  So I think that the speed issue should be the same.

It shouldn't be slower than git-quiltimport (at least the recent stgit
versions) as they seem to have a similar approach (using "git apply").
There is probably an extra check stgit does for local changes before
starting the import. Otherwise, just use git-quiltimport and "stg
uncommit" to generate the patches.

StGIT approach for pushing patches is to use git-apply and, only if this
fails, switch to a three-way merge. These days it seems that the
three-way merge is pretty fast anyway, we might drop the former (after
some benchmarking).

> I had a number of issues last time I tried stgit out, but maybe they are
> now resolved, I'll try it out tomorrow and report to the git list
> anything I find that doesn't work for me.

Please try the last stable release, 0.14. The current HEAD has some
restructuring done (but gets nice features like transactions, undo).

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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