Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Nov 2011 15:20:04 +0100 | From | Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン) <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.2-rc1 |
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Hello,
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:10:02 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Which brings me to a question I already asked on G+ - do people really > need the old-fashioned patches? The -rc1 patch is about 22MB gzip-9'd, > and part of the reason is that all those renames cause big > delete/create diffs. We *could* use git rename patches, but then you'd > have to apply them with "git apply" rather than the legacy "patch" > executables. But as it is, the patch is almost a third of the size of > the tar-ball, which makes me wonder if there's even any point to such > a big patch?
Is that what made the various tarballs for 3.2-rc1 land in /pub/linux/kernel/v3.x and not in testing/ ? ;)
I spent quite a lot of time wondering where they could be in testing/ until I accidently found them...
Anyway, to answer the initial question: no, I don't use the patch-blah files, only full tarballs.
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