Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:22:25 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off the incremental diff robot
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On Mon 2011-05-30 13:49:01, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/30/2011 12:45 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:03:03PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> With the v3.0 name change I was looking over what might break, and I'm
> >> seriously considering turning off the incremental diff robot on
> >> kernel.org.  It's not clear to me that it is actually useful anymore,
> >> with git and all.
> > 
> > What is the incremental diff robot?
> > 
> > Does it make the patches between 2.6.x to 2.6.x+1?
> > 
> 
> No, but it generates the patches between, say, 2.6.x.y and 2.6.x.y+1 or
> 2.6.x-rcy and 2.6.x-rcy+1.  Anything in an "incr" directory.

-git1 to -git2 diffs are probably not useful.

2.6.39.1 to 2.6.39.2 diffs are useful IMO - people using stable
kernels do not use git.

I'm using -rc1 to -rc2 diffs. Useful :-).			Pavel
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