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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:47:46 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>, Chris Ricker <kaboom@gatech.edu>,
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:06:15AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> If the "patches-to-linus" list does get implemented, it would probably also 
> be fairly easy to automatically match new pre-X->pre-Y diffs against the 
> recent patches from the list, and extract most of the information that way.  
> (Assuming Linus doesn't modify them too much, or end up taking a lot of 
> patches from other sources.  A human would probably still have to do at least 
> part of it, but it might be an improvement on just putting the whole big 
> version diff in the cvs tree as one lump...)

Instead of doing this stuff half-assed, just convince Linus to use BK :)

	Jeff



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