From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:18:07 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510291609140.5288@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510291229330.3348@g5.osdl.org>
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Now, I've gotten several positive comments on how easy "git bisect" is to
> use, and I've used it myself, but this is the first time that patch users
> _really_ become very much second-class citizens, and you can't necessarily
> always do useful things with just the tar-trees and patches. That's sad,
> and possibly a really big downside.
Since GIT is real free software that even purists may use without fear,
this downside is certainly not as critical as it was in the BK days.
The fact is: tar and patches simply do not scale anymore.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-29 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-29 18:22 Jeff Garzik
2005-10-29 19:14 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-29 19:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-29 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-29 20:09 ` Al Viro
2005-10-29 20:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-29 20:18 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2005-10-29 21:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-30 15:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-10-29 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-29 22:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-30 0:55 ` Tony Luck
2005-10-30 2:28 ` Horst von Brand
2005-10-30 12:44 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-30 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-30 23:31 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-31 0:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-31 2:35 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-31 7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-31 8:10 ` David Lang
2005-10-31 8:28 ` David Lang
2005-10-31 9:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-31 9:13 ` David Lang
2005-10-31 9:34 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-31 11:45 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-10-31 17:49 ` David Lang
2005-10-31 18:06 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-10-31 2:52 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-10 0:36 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-30 23:59 ` Rob Landley
2005-10-31 0:16 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-30 13:11 ` Pavel Machek
2005-10-31 3:55 ` David Lang
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-18 2:15 Jeff Garzik
2006-01-18 2:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-18 5:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-03 16:43 Jeff Garzik
2006-01-03 16:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-01-03 16:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-03 17:32 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-03 17:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-03 18:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-01-03 18:50 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-04 14:02 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-11 16:23 Jeff Garzik
2005-11-09 6:54 Jeff Garzik
2005-10-28 0:49 Jeff Garzik
2005-10-28 16:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-29 0:25 Jeff Garzik
2005-06-28 16:59 Jeff Garzik
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