linux-kernel - Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git?

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:45:01 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
Cc:     Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git?

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Yes and no. What are these non-git people doing with the patches? Since
> patch won't apply them, are they just reading them for personal
> enlightenment?

Oh, patch applies them fine.

They might end up not seeing some of the updates to binary files,
that's all. So things like the logo updates or some pdf file might not
work out for them, but that doesn't mean that they can't use the patch
and the resulting kernel.

             Linus