On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:39:33PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Karel Zak (kzak(a)redhat.com) said:
> My wish is "git rebase" always after upgrade to new upstream code.
> The current "make prep" is nightmare...
>
> See Linux kernel. That's normal that people maintain their patches
> outside official tree(s) for pretty long time. The modern VCS is the
> right tool for this job.
>
> "separate out our changes from what upstream has" .. is definitely
> no problem.
Well, it depends on what you're doing. DaveJ tried to move to git
pulling the various things we need for our kernel - it ended up
being a pretty big problem getting something sane out of it, and he
ended up going back to patches.
Yes, I remember a discussion about it. I'm not sure if this one
DaveJ's attempt is enough to completely reject this idea ;-)
Karel
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