linux-kernel - Re: Turning off the incremental diff robot

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Message-Id: <20110530131052.8cc0c283.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Mon, 30 May 2011 13:10:52 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off the incremental diff robot

On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:45:00 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:03:03PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > With the v3.0 name change I was looking over what might break, and I'm
> > seriously considering turning off the incremental diff robot on
> > kernel.org.  It's not clear to me that it is actually useful anymore,
> > with git and all.
> 
> What is the incremental diff robot?
> 
> Does it make the patches between 2.6.x to 2.6.x+1?
> 
> > 
> > Do anyone actually use these anymore?
> 
> If the above is the case, yes I do. And we need to update the ketchup
> script as well.


and scripts/patch-kernel needs to be fixed (or dropped).

It will use the incremental diffs, but I doubt that patch-kernel or the
incremental diffs model has many users (he said with no proof :).

They could go away IMO.  I only use git or -rc or daily tarballs.
The only time that I have used incremental diffs was for a poor man's
bisect, but git does it much better.

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~Randy
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