Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:36:53 -0600 (MDT)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote:

> If we stick with git it might make sense not to include a linux-patch.  cogito
> is quite fast to export using a commit id.  Suspect some bandwidth could be 
> saved if you just stated the commit id that you based the mm patch on.
> 
> In case anyone is wondering how build this from a cogito/git db...  Find the
> cogito announcement on lkml install and update cogito.  Then folliw the instructions
> in the README and download the kernel's db.  Next search lkml to find the commit id 
> of rc3 (a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb) and verify you have it correct 
> with:
> 
> cg-mkpatch a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb
> 
> then export a tree with
> 
> cg-export ../12-3-1 a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb
> 
> and cd over to the new dir and patch with mm and have fun.

That'd be a horribly convoluted procedure and make automation difficult,
-mm shouldn't be that difficult to use. Also linus.patch used to be the 
current -bk snapshot.
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