Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1 | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:54:33 +0200 |
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* Linus Torvalds:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Matt Mackall wrote: >> >> Phew, I was worried about that. Can I get a ruling on how you intend >> to handle a x.y.z.1 to x.y.z.2 transition? I've got a tool that I'm >> looking to unbreak. My preference would be for all x.y.z.n patches to >> be relative to x.y.z. > > Hmm.. I have no strong preferences. There _is_ obviously a well-defined > ordering from x.y.z.1 -> x.y.z.2 (unlike the -rcX releases that don't have > any ordering wrt the bugfixes), so either interdiffs or whole new full > diffs are totally "logical". We just have to chose one way or the other, > and I don't actually much care.
It would be slightly more consistent to diff .2 against .1 because this is what already happens when a new x.y.z release is published. - 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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