Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:11:25 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: qiyong@fc-cn.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why no -mm git tree?
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Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ah.  If you're suggesting that the -mm git tree have _patches_ under git,
>  > and the way of grabbing the -mm tree is to pull everything and to then
>  > apply all the patches under the patches/ directory then yeah, that would
>  > work.
>  >
>  > But my tree at any random point in time is a random piece of
>  > doesn't-even-compile-let-alone-run crap, believe me.  Often not all the
>  > patches even apply.  I don't think there's much point in exposing people to
>  > something like that.
> 
>  Andew,
>  did you consider Stacked GIT as an alternative to quilt ?

I looked at the web page - stgit seems to be broken-out patches
revision-controlled under git.  I don't think that affects any of the
considerations I've outlined?
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