Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:28:33 -0500 | Subject | Re: Linux 3.2-rc1 | From | Josh Boyer <> |
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On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote: > On 11/07/2011 06:10 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> Which brings me to a question I already asked on G+ - do people really >> need the old-fashioned patches? The -rc1 patch is about 22MB gzip-9'd, >> and part of the reason is that all those renames cause big >> delete/create diffs. We *could* use git rename patches, but then you'd >> have to apply them with "git apply" rather than the legacy "patch" >> executables. But as it is, the patch is almost a third of the size of >> the tar-ball, which makes me wonder if there's even any point to such >> a big patch? > > [email was too long/noisy, sorry for the delayed reply.] > [should I admit that I don't follow you on g+ ?] > > > Do you mean files like patch-3.2-rc1.gz or .bz2 or .xz? > Yes, I use them, but if I am the only user of them, I'll get over it.
Fedora uses those. We also used the -gitX snapshot patches when they were generated, but now we do that by hand (which we also did for the -rcX patches while kernel.org was down.)
josh
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