linux-kernel - Re: The gregkh patch scripts

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1003071546000.8502-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date:	Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:54:25 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The gregkh patch scripts

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Greg KH wrote:

> Yes, I can switch back to going off of the -rcN-gitM markings that I was
> using in the past.  If I do that does it make it easier for you?
> 
> And yes, you are right, this is a constant rebase, and that's wrong on
> my part.

That's exactly the problem.  I don't mind rebasing for each -rcN; in
fact many of the early -rc kernels often contain important bug fixes so
I'm glad to have them.  But rebasing more often than that becomes
increasingly inconvenient.

> This makes me reconsider the fact that I'm using quilt for all of this.
> Perhaps if I switch to a git tree, it would all be easier for people
> like you?  Would you prefer that?

I'm happy either way (although by now I'm quite used to using quilt and
not so accustomed to git -- I haven't tried guilt).  Of course, other
people may feel differently.

> For stuff like my staging tree, I'm almost convinced that switching to
> git makes more sense as keeping that many patches in quilt is a mess and
> I don't ever end up rebasing anything or deleting any patches in the
> middle anymore.
> 
> For USB, yeah, I think it's also time to switch over as well.  What do
> you think?

Let's ask some other people on the USB list (CC'ed).  My main concern 
is to avoid rebasing too often, whichever source-code management system 
is used.

Alan Stern

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