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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 10/21] backports: avoid git tree reinitialization
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> 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?

It was very useful to me when debugging, hence --gitdebug. Also, each
step is actually what some folks may want to see done / committed as
that may have been work done manually before for each kernel release
bump, now its just automated.

Luis


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