linux-kernel - Re: Backport dependencies helper

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Date:   Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:41:23 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Backport dependencies helper

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:08:30AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> No, those tools try to do the same thing, but work differently.
> stable-deps attempts to look at context lines surrounding the patch
> itself to guess which other patches might be interesting.

OK!

> While here, I use git-bisect to create a list of commits required to be
> applied before any given commit.

I see, this sounds like a great idea!

Thanks,
Willy