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

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Message-ID: <4DE402BD.4060407@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 May 2011 13:49:01 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off the incremental diff robot

On 05/30/2011 12:45 PM, 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?
> 

No, but it generates the patches between, say, 2.6.x.y and 2.6.x.y+1 or
2.6.x-rcy and 2.6.x-rcy+1.  Anything in an "incr" directory.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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