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    SubjectRe: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates
    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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    >
    >
    > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    > >
    > > Even so, it's easy, to I'll ask him to test 2.6.14, 2.6.14-git1, and
    > > (tonight's upcoming) 2.6.14-git2 (with my latest pull included) to see if
    > > anything breaks.
    >
    > Side note: one of the downsides of the new "merge lots of stuff early in
    > the development series" approach is that the first few daily snapshots end
    > up being _huge_.
    >
    > So the -git1 and -git2 patches are/will be very big indeed.
    >
    > For example, patch-2.6.14-git1 literally ended up being a megabyte
    > compressed. Right now my diff to 2.6.14 (after just two days) is 1.6MB
    > compressed.
    >

    However there's usually little overlap between the subsystems trees - with
    a net update, a USB update, a SCSI update and an ia64 update it's usually
    pretty obvious which one caused a particular regression.

    And given that the size of each individual subsystem update is unaltered,
    it doesn't really matter whether or not they all came on the same day.

    The individual -mm-only patches tend to be more scattered around the tree,
    which is why I send them as batches of 100-200 every couple of days: to get
    a bit of separation in the -git snapshots. This hasn't actually proven to
    be very useful, though.
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