Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 May 2011 13:10:52 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: Turning off the incremental diff robot |
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On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:45:00 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:03:03PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > With the v3.0 name change I was looking over what might break, and I'm > > seriously considering turning off the incremental diff robot on > > kernel.org. It's not clear to me that it is actually useful anymore, > > with git and all. > > What is the incremental diff robot? > > Does it make the patches between 2.6.x to 2.6.x+1? > > > > > Do anyone actually use these anymore? > > If the above is the case, yes I do. And we need to update the ketchup > script as well.
and scripts/patch-kernel needs to be fixed (or dropped).
It will use the incremental diffs, but I doubt that patch-kernel or the incremental diffs model has many users (he said with no proof :).
They could go away IMO. I only use git or -rc or daily tarballs. The only time that I have used incremental diffs was for a poor man's bisect, but git does it much better.
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