Re: [GIT PATCH] I2C and W1 bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc2

[Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>]

Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:19:01AM CEST, I got a letter
where Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> told me that...
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> >>Nice, it looks like the merge of this tree, and my usb tree worked just
> >>fine.
> >
> >
> >Yup, it all seems to work out.
> 
> [many files patched]
> patching file mm/mmap.c
> patching file net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c
> patching file scripts/ver_linux
> ----------------------^^^^^^^^^
> Hey, that's my patch!  Last...and least.
> But perhaps a progress bar right about here might be
> a good thing for the terminally impatient.
> 
> real    3m54.909s
> user    0m14.835s
> sys     0m10.587s
> 
> 4 minutes might be long enough to cause some folks to lose hope.

I'm wondering if doing

if [ "$(show-diff)" ]; then
	git diff | git apply
else
	checkout-cache -f -a
fi

would actually buy us some time; or, how common is it for people to have
no local changes whatsoever, and whether relative slowdown of additional
show-diff to git diff would actually matter.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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