# Re: Is there any hope (format-patch)??

1 messages from 2008-08-02 to 2008-08-02. Participants: Matti Kaasinen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14808

## Matti Kaasinen, 2008-08-02 11:04

Subject: Re: Is there any hope (format-patch)??
Message-ID: <48943F31.8080707@kolumbus.fi>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/48943F31.8080707%40kolumbus.fi

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Thanks Daniel,
some comments
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> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Matti Kaasinen wrote:
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> >/ Hi!/
> >/ /
> >/ Is there any hope with following procedure:/
> >/ I took reporitory from linux git:/
> >/ # git clone/
> >/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
> >/ /
> >/ For getting patches to make recent version from v2.6.26-rc3 I executed:/
> >/ # git format-patch -o patchdir v2.6.26-rc3..origin/
>
> format-patch isn't going to work too well with non-linear history. When 
> two people make nearby or overlapping changes which get merged later, and 
> this gets turned into a linear sequence of changes, there's no 
> possible patch that will accurately reflect the change which got ordered 
> second.
>
> >/ Then I checked out v2.6.26-rc3 to a new branch and patched it with/
> >/ at91patch/maxim.org.za that was produced against v2.6.26-rc3. That worked out/
> >/ without complaints./
>
> It sounds like you really just want to do "merge origin" now, and skip the 
> whole patch series thing.
>   
Ok, I'll try how it works, when I get back to my desk. Well, I'm running 
out of time and possibly I need to stay in the current version.
> You'll probably get some conflicts (or applying the patch directly to 
> origin would have worked),
There came quite a lot of complaints from patching directly the origin. 
Strange that some were complaints of trying to re-create files. So, I 
just wonder if that patching really is needed. I suppose I should try to 
ask that from maxim.org.za
>  but they should be relatively easy to resolve.
>   
Well, hope so - direct patching to origin gave quite lot of complaints.
-Matti

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