linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.2-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:28:33 -0500
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.2-rc1

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 06:10 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> Which brings me to a question I already asked on G+ - do people really
>> need the old-fashioned patches? The -rc1 patch is about 22MB gzip-9'd,
>> and part of the reason is that all those renames cause big
>> delete/create diffs. We *could* use git rename patches, but then you'd
>> have to apply them with "git apply" rather than the legacy "patch"
>> executables. But as it is, the patch is almost a third of the size of
>> the tar-ball, which makes me wonder if there's even any point to such
>> a big patch?
>
> [email was too long/noisy, sorry for the delayed reply.]
> [should I admit that I don't follow you on g+ ?]
>
>
> Do you mean files like patch-3.2-rc1.gz or .bz2 or .xz?
> Yes, I use them, but if I am the only user of them, I'll get over it.

Fedora uses those.  We also used the -gitX snapshot patches when they
were generated, but now we do that by hand (which we also did for the
-rcX patches while kernel.org was down.)

josh
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