Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751190AbVJ2USV (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:18:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751199AbVJ2USV (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:18:21 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:14008 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751190AbVJ2USU (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:18:20 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:18:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: nico@localhost.localdomain To: Linus Torvalds Cc: lkml Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20051029182228.GA14495@havoc.gtf.org> <20051029121454.5d27aecb.akpm@osdl.org> <4363CB60.2000201@pobox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 20 On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Now, I've gotten several positive comments on how easy "git bisect" is to > use, and I've used it myself, but this is the first time that patch users > _really_ become very much second-class citizens, and you can't necessarily > always do useful things with just the tar-trees and patches. That's sad, > and possibly a really big downside. Since GIT is real free software that even purists may use without fear, this downside is certainly not as critical as it was in the BK days. The fact is: tar and patches simply do not scale anymore. Nicolas - 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/