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    SubjectRe: The direction linux is taking
    On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Dave Jones wrote:
    > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
    > > Anyway, I'm interested to see if there are screams of "all I ever do is
    > > merge and I hate it" or "merging? what's that?".
    >
    > I've only been keeping this tree since the beginning of the month,
    > so I'm still trying to find my feet a little, but so far merging is
    > pretty straightforward and usually painless.
    >
    > The procedure when Linus/Marcelo release a new patch usually goes..
    >
    > 1. edit the patch to remove any bits that don't make sense
    > (eg, I have newer/better version in my tree)
    > 2. cat ../patch-2.5.x | patch -p1 --dry-run
    > 3. edit the patch to remove already present hunks.
    > 4. manually fix up rejects in my tree, and remove reject hunk
    > from the diff.
    > 5. back to (1) until no rejects.
    > 6. cat ../patch-2.5.x | patch -p1
    > 7. testing..
    > 8. Create new diff, and give it a quick readthrough.
    >
    > Out of all this the initial patch review (step #1) and the final
    > lookover are by far the most time consuming, and I don't think any
    > automated tool could speed this up and give me the same level of
    > understanding over what I'm merging.

    When I was bringing the m68k tree back in sync near the end of 1999, I used the
    following approach:
    - keep all trees, use `cp -rl' and `patch' when a new version is released
    (cfr. Al Viro)
    - use `same' to prevent the need for zillions of disk space, and to make the
    creation of diffs between such trees fast
    - merge trees using my home-brew `mergetree' perl script (basically a
    recursive `merge' command), which can replace the destination file by a
    hard link if it's the same as one of the originals

    Despite having a real CVS repository for m68k now, I still use mergetree...

    Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

    Geert

    --
    Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

    In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
    when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
    -- Linus Torvalds

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