Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:53:29 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-mm1 |
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Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > One could go on at length as to why this mistake is so easy to make > > when you're using CVS, but what it boils down to is that these > > projects are using the wrong paradigm. They're maintaining files, > > whereas they should be maintaining *changes* to files. > > My point exactly. You seem to excuse them for providing broken patches > because they use the wrong tools to do the job in the first place,
No, I'm just saying...
> If CVS doesn't work, let's not use it.
Agree.
> There are other tools out there which will do the job just fine (one of > them being quilt [1], which makes my own job so much easier since I'm > using it, thanks to its various authors and contributors). > > [1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/
That works. So does git. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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