From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261598AbVFTVtJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:49:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261635AbVFTVs2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:48:28 -0400 Received: from smtp-101-monday.noc.nerim.net ([62.4.17.101]:1042 "EHLO mallaury.noc.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261617AbVFTVlm (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:41:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:42:02 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Andrew Morton Cc: mchehab@brturbo.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: 2.6.12-mm1 Message-Id: <20050620234202.3c605b89.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20050620142323.2ed2180b.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050619233029.45dd66b8.akpm@osdl.org> <20050620202947.040be273.khali@linux-fr.org> <20050620134146.0e5de567.akpm@osdl.org> <20050620231147.7232d889.khali@linux-fr.org> <20050620142323.2ed2180b.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, > One could go on at length as to why this mistake is so easy to make > when you're using CVS, but what it boils down to is that these > projects are using the wrong paradigm. They're maintaining files, > whereas they should be maintaining *changes* to files. My point exactly. You seem to excuse them for providing broken patches because they use the wrong tools to do the job in the first place, I don't (and I'm not even you). If CVS doesn't work, let's not use it. There are other tools out there which will do the job just fine (one of them being quilt [1], which makes my own job so much easier since I'm using it, thanks to its various authors and contributors). [1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/ -- Jean Delvare