Re: [git patches] 2.6.x libata updates

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I don't think that's the problem.
> 
> It's the learning curve. I don't think git is that hard to use (certainly 
> not if you just follow somebody elses tree and occasionally do a "git 
> bisect"), but git _is_ different. And if you're not a developer, or even 
> if you are, and you're just somebody who has alway sjust used CVS, then 
> something like "patch" is simply to understand what it's doing, with 
> basically no abstractions anywhere. 

Agreed.

> Compared to tar-files + patches, git has a _lot_ of abstract things going 
> on that you have to get used to before you aren't intimidated by it.

Maybe gitweb could be extended to provide any arbitrary patch with a 
front-end to git-bisect...


Nicolas