From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:50:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc6
Message-ID: <20071221035036.GE8535@fattire.cabal.ca>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712201937470.21557@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 07:49:05PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > 
> > I think I see the problem, it's lack of context in the diff,
> 
> No, the problem is that "git diff" is apparently broken by a recent 
> optimization. The diff is simply broken.
> 
> The tar-ball and the git archive itself is fine, but yes, the diff from 
> 2.6.23 to 2.6.24-rc6 is bad. It's the "trim_common_tail()" optimization 
> that has caused way too much pain.
> 
> Sorry about that, I'll fix it up asap.
> 

no biggie, thanks!

cheers, Kyle