Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:20:23 +1000 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: offtopic: how to break huge patch into smaller independent patches? |
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> Its kind of offtopic, but I hoped that someone might have some pointers > since the kernel developers deal with so many patches. > > I've been given a massive kernel patch that makes a whole bunch of > conceptually independent changes. > > Does anyone have any advice on how to break it up into independent patches?
dirdiff is a great tool for this. I think its on samba.org somewhere, but you can definitely find it in debian.
The new version is even better, I think Paul should do a release :)
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