From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Ext4 Patch Queue using stgit.
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:06:26 -0400
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On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:12:23PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was looking at ext4 patch queue and was wondering why we are  putting 
> .patch under git. If we are looking for a quilt like functionality, one 
> can achieve the same using stgit. I was using stgit to maintain a set of
> patches before. 

The problem with stgit is that you lose the history of the patches.
This is why the stable kernel queue is also kept as a git repository
of patches.

Regards,

						- Ted