Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932376AbVJ3Wgt (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:36:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932375AbVJ3Wgt (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:36:49 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:13764 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932374AbVJ3Wgs (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:36:48 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:36:44 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Rob Landley cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates In-Reply-To: <200510300644.20225.rob@landley.net> Message-ID: References: <20051029182228.GA14495@havoc.gtf.org> <4363CB60.2000201@pobox.com> <200510300644.20225.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1030 Lines: 28 On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Rob Landley wrote: > > Rather than making the patch a simple diff of the trees, make the patch a cat > of the individual patches/commits (preferably with descriptions) that got > applied, in the order they got applied. > > This makes the patch bigger, but it also means that bisect can be done with > vi, simply by truncating the file at the last interesting patch and applying > the truncated version to a clean tree. Since patch applies hunks in order > and sifts out hunks from description already... > > Is this a viable option? No. There is no "ordering" in a distributed environment. We have things happening in parallel, adn you can't really linearize the patches. The closest you can get is "git bisect", which does the right thing. Linus - 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/