| Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 10/21] backports: avoid git tree reinitialization | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:47:31 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 00:15 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> > > When using backports against for packaging with --gitdebug you either > have to use --clean or assume the directory is empty already. In either > case you start fresh. With integration this will be a bit different, you > could end up with a project directory where the git tree was present but > only the target directory was empty. > > Calling git init on an already existing git directory will reinitialize > your git tree, that can reset some config stuff, let's avoid that.
I guess I don't care much, but it seems strange to me that you'd use --gitdebug in this case, you'd end up committing crappy patches to the top-level kernel tree?
johannes
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