From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:56:36 GMT
Subject: Re: retrieving a diff from git
Message-ID: <vpqfxmz5acr.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20081014172048.GW22427@vanheusden.com>

Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> writes:

>> but ... Have you considered using Git for that?
>
> and check out the whole tree using Git? I did consider but then I would
> not have all bells and whistles to generate a Debian kernel package.

You can probably clone the Kernel repository, generate a huge diff
with git diff, and apply it to your Debian tree with patch or
git apply, but if the patch serie is not based on your tree, this
won't help with conflicts.

-- 
Matthieu