Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:39:32 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.5.52 |
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> Alternatively, never EVER make a patch against the "current kernel > version". Only make a patch against the _last_ kernel that you merged > with, and if I cannot apply it I will tell you so. Making a patch just > between your tree and mine will _always_ end up losing fixes.
I think this is a good approach. If people sent Linus patches with some indication of the baseline of the patch, such as BASELINE=v2.5.49 in the header of the patch, I'd be willing to go make bk import -temail do the right thing, which would probably be to try and patch it in in the working tree, but if that didn't work, it would do
bk clone -l -r$BASELINE tree tree.$BASELINE cd tree.$BASLINE bk import -temail .... cd ../tree bk pull ../tree.$BASELINE && rm -rf ../tree.$BASELINE
and you'd get BK to merge most of the work. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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