Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266810AbUIOBYl (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:24:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266870AbUIOBYl (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:24:41 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:50351 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266810AbUIOBYk (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:24:40 -0400 Message-ID: <414799D1.7050609@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:24:33 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin J. Bligh" CC: Anton Blanchard , Linux kernel , paulus@samba.org Subject: Re: offtopic: how to break huge patch into smaller independent patches? References: <41474B15.8040302@nortelnetworks.com> <20040915002023.GD5615@krispykreme> <119340000.1095209242@flay> In-Reply-To: <119340000.1095209242@flay> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 580 Lines: 17 Martin J. Bligh wrote: > 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 ;-) Unfortunately I've got over 550 files being changed, in probably about 50 conceptual areas. It's not going to be fun. Chris - 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/