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SubjectRe: 2.6.18-rc6-mm1
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:56:26 -0400
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:

> In-Reply-To: <20060911102328.861a64b3.akpm@osdl.org>
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:23:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.18-rc6.tar.bz2
> > wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc6/2.6.18-rc6-mm1/2.6.18-rc6-mm1-broken-out.tar.gz
> > box:/home/akpm> mkdir aa
> > box:/home/akpm> cd aa
> > box:/home/akpm/aa> tar xfj ../linux-2.6.18-rc6.tar.bz2
> > box:/home/akpm/aa> cd linux-2.6.18-rc6
> > box:/home/akpm/aa/linux-2.6.18-rc6> tar xfz ../../2.6.18-rc6-mm1-broken-out.tar.gz
> > box:/home/akpm/aa/linux-2.6.18-rc6> mv broken-out patches
> > box:/home/akpm/aa/linux-2.6.18-rc6> quilt push -a > /dev/null
> > box:/home/akpm/aa/linux-2.6.18-rc6> quilt applied | wc -l
> > 1835
>
> I found the problem:
>
> $ set | fgrep QUILT
> QUILT_DIFF_OPTS=-p
> QUILT_PATCH_OPTS=--fuzz=0
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> Your patchset does have conflicts -- you're just ignoring them
> by accepting fuzz (and patch hunks can even end up being applied
> at the wrong place.)
>

Sure. The -mm queue always has large amount of fuzz. Lots and lots. I'll
occasionally go and rediff the fuzzy patches to clean things up, but that
involves pointlessly incrementing the local version number on 200-300
patches, which I prefer to avoid.
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