Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:28:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:28:40 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.130]:65459 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:28:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:29:10 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Andrew Morton cc: phillips@arcor.de, zbrown@tumblerings.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone Message-ID: <26420000.1047414550@flay> In-Reply-To: <20030311120824.2f5a7374.akpm@digeo.com> References: <200303020011.QAA13450@adam.yggdrasil.com><20030311184043.GA24925@renegade><22230000.1047408397@flay><20030311192639.E72163C5BE@mx01.nexgo.de><24360000.1047411221@flay> <20030311120824.2f5a7374.akpm@digeo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1409 Lines: 33 >> >> At the moment, I slap the patches back on top of every new version >> >> seperately, which works well, but is a PITA. >> > >> > Tell me about it. >> >> Well, it normally only takes me an hour per release. > > Whoa. You need better tools. > > A bunch of fine people took patch-tools and turned them into a real project. > They have .deb's and .rpm's, but it looks like they're a bit old and a `cvs co' > is needed. I'm still using the old stuff, but I'm sure theirs is better. > > See http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/ I did take a look at your stuff in the past ... had a few minor objections at the time, but have actually grown closer to what you do since then. I *do* like the numbering of my patches though. I might try to merge them together at some point soon. So when I say 1 hour ... bear in mind I don't take Linus bk-drops normally, on the full releases, so the delta is bigger (and I'm slower than you! ;-)) You still have to fix up the rejects from 'patch -p1' by hand though, right? That's what normally takes most of the time, especially if it's code I'm unfamiliar with, or I make a mistake (reboot takes 5-10 mins ;-)) M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/