Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:20:23 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: offtopic: how to break huge patch into smaller independent patches?
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> Its kind of offtopic, but I hoped that someone might have some pointers 
> since the kernel developers deal with so many patches.
> 
> I've been given a massive kernel patch that makes a whole bunch of 
> conceptually independent changes.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice on how to break it up into independent patches?

dirdiff is a great tool for this. I think its on samba.org somewhere,
but you can definitely find it in debian.

The new version is even better, I think Paul should do a release :)

Anton
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