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Message-ID: <20080214204209.GA17277@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:42:09 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: quilt series

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:42:10AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> To make my life easier, can I ask that the series file for any quilt trees in the linux-next tree have a comment at the top to identify their base (either a SHA1 or some other ref in Linus' tree).  Like this:
> 
> # BASE <SHA1 or ref>

My trees are now marked with this.

> Also, if you only want a subset of the series file included, you can mark the patches with
> 
> # NEXT_PATCHES_START
> 	.
> 	.
> # NEXT_PATCHES_END

Oh, that's nice.

Can we write these things down somewhere on the web so that I, and
others, remember them in a few months?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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