Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:47:22 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
       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 :)

If the changes are in fairly independant files, just vi'ing the diff is
normally very effective. If they're all intertangled, then starting again
from scratch is prob easier ;-)

M.

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