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SubjectRe: merge status
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 10 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's more of a "I don't feel like spending 1-2 hours making and testing
> > > a -mm version"
> >
> > There shouldn't be a need for special -m version of patches. Very usually
> > the diff-against-linus can be made to work quite easily. Sufficiently
> > easily that I resync with all the git trees a couple of times a day.
>
> Often the patch itself may not take too much work, but you still need to
> set up a -mm test directory, compile, boot, and test the stuff.

Most of the other git-tree maintainers don't bother with any of that.
acpi, agp, alsa, arm, ... xfs. The trees which have special -mm branches
are just drm, ieee1394, jfs, mips and netdev.

Where it all comes unstuck at present is if a maintainer has multiple
branches, and some of those branches contains diffs which are in other
branches. If that happens, the diffs I generate throw huge rejects.
But even then, if one branch is a strict superset of another, I can just
pull the superset one.
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