From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A792AC2D0F1 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8752A2071A for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730568AbgCaOl0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:41:26 -0400 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:34220 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726526AbgCaOl0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:41:26 -0400 Received: (from willy@localhost) by pcw.home.local (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 02VEfNqS024749; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:41:23 +0200 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:41:23 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Sasha Levin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Backport dependencies helper Message-ID: <20200331144123.GA24745@1wt.eu> References: <20200331123217.GM4189@sasha-vm> <20200331134400.GA24671@1wt.eu> <20200331140830.GN4189@sasha-vm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200331140830.GN4189@sasha-vm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:08:30AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > No, those tools try to do the same thing, but work differently. > stable-deps attempts to look at context lines surrounding the patch > itself to guess which other patches might be interesting. OK! > While here, I use git-bisect to create a list of commits required to be > applied before any given commit. I see, this sounds like a great idea! Thanks, Willy