Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:10:32 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 |
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:05:43 -0600 (MDT) Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
| On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote: | | > Huh? Assuming one already has a current git tree. Then all Andrew need do | > is publish the commit id from Linus then the complicated procedure becomes | > | > cd <checkedout git copy of kernel> | > cg-update origin | > cg-export ../<work dir> <commit id> | > cd ../<work dir> | > cp ../<default config> .config | > bzcat ../<mm patch> | patch -p1 | > make oldconfig | > make | > | > No problem to script this at all. Also, I suspect what when tagging starts to be | > used, that <commit id> will be an easily typeable string. | | Ok, now tell this to one of the users who tests kernels, now users also | need to know how to use git in order to test -mm. I'm thinking about the | case where someone reports a bug on LKML and we ask that they test latest | -mm, getting them to also understand git just to quickly test something is | silly. Also people tend to have other things to do so making things | even slightly more difficult doesn't win you testers. Maybe i'm just | lazy... *shrug*
Nope, you are correct...
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