linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Documentation for 6.16

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wi6U90ddnUvh5A0AxBecSPczswRj4hsd2rvKeMv4pUNgQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 11:37:12 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Documentation for 6.16

On Tue, 27 May 2025 at 09:01, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
>
>  scripts/kernel-doc                                 | 2440 +-------------------
>  scripts/kernel-doc.pl                              | 2439 +++++++++++++++++++
>  [...]
>  54 files changed, 7336 insertions(+), 2815 deletions(-)
>  [...]
> mode change 100755 => 120000 scripts/kernel-doc
> create mode 100755 scripts/kernel-doc.pl
> create mode 100755 scripts/kernel-doc.py

Bah, I was unhappy about git creating this horribly diffstat, but it
turns out that it's because the pull-request scripts by default don't
use the fancier 'git diff' options.

In particular, with the '-B' option, git will give much better results:

 scripts/kernel-doc                                 | 2440 +-------------------
 scripts/{kernel-doc => kernel-doc.pl}              |    2 +-
 [...]
 54 files changed, 4903 insertions(+), 2821 deletions(-)
 [...]
 rewrite scripts/kernel-doc (100%)
 mode change 100755 => 120000
 copy scripts/{kernel-doc => kernel-doc.pl} (99%)

but I think we never enabled the 'break rewrites' option by default
because it generates diffs that I am not convinced non-git sources
understand.

Oh well. I just wanted to point out that git *can* do better than what
the default settings make it do.

          Linus