Re: [PATCH 0/3] ftrace: start stop infrastructure changes

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

>  Note, I'm now trying to learn to use git. I am experimenting with
>  using a combination of quilt and git. I set up a git repo at:
> 
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> 
>  This series is in the tip/devel branch.
> 
>  I'll put my changes in that branch and then send out the patches
>  as I have always done. But the introduction will list the shortlog
>  of the changes, then followed by the patches themselves.
> 
>  I do this by using git format-patch and then having quilt send
>  out the queue that was produced.
> 
>  I plan on automating a lot of this, but for this run, it was
>  done manually.

Worked fine on my side - and it's easier than processing patches in 
email: the ordering and dependencies are more obvious.

The only flip side is that it's harder to fix small details in commit 
logs in an ad-hoc way. So be prepared to see more nitpicking from me 
for such details :-)

	Ingo