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Message-ID: <1374686174.3356.135.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:16:14 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org >> Kroah-Hartman, Greg" 
	<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@...sung.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ 000/103] 3.10.3-stable review

On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 10:04 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The alternative workflow is to tell git to track the new files added
> by the patch. So if you use "git apply --index", git will not just
> apply the patch, it will also add the result to the index - so you
> could commit it with a single "git commit", and you can see the diff -
> including new files - with "git diff --cached". And then "git reset
> --hard" will also undo the new files.

I don't know why "git apply" doesn't do it by default. Why would you
want to apply a patch without having git track new files?

This burnt me a few times when working with the -rt patch until I found
to use "--index" always.

-- Steve


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