From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:01:41 GMT Subject: Re: branching and supporting a tagged kernel version Message-ID: <20051213000140.GZ22159@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <68948ca0512121558s6e300103t95fcc0e9573604a7@mail.gmail.com> Dear diary, on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:58:38AM CET, I got a letter where Don Zickus said that... > Thanks for clearing things up. > > > I'll refrain from saying that it is not the usual way to work > > with git, since you seem to know what you are doing. So let's > > Either this or cvs. :) Anyway my work involves releasing a platform > to customers who don't want to constantly upgrade their kernel. And > instead of waiting for bugs to be filed, I was just trying to find a > way to be pro-active and fix certain bugs _before_ our customers hit > them. You might also consider managing your patches in StGIT, which could give you more comfort for managing them. StGIT provides quilt-like functionality on top of GIT, and it's easy to reorder, add, and remove patches, as well as submit them to the upstream and remove them automatically when they get merged. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.