Re: Breaks in lenny
David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:00:15PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> I think you just need to go look at the Linux kernel source, and
>> git, and number and size of the different trees ythat are out there,
>> and how well git scales to those.
>> quilt is not even in the ball park. I am not sure it can play
>> the same ball game, even. I would love to see anyone try to convince
>> Linus how quilt would make the kernel code easier to deal with than git
>> does (advance notice so I can bring pop corn would be appreciated).
> Andrew Morton uses (or used, I don't know if it's changed) quilt to
> manage releases of the linux kernel. He apparently refuses (refused? I
> don't follow lkml) to use git. So yes, quilt can scale up to the linux
> kernel size quite well.
Yes, quilt (like git) is based on a collection of scripts written
originally by Linux kernel hackers. It was designed specifically to deal
with the patch sets for the Linux kernel. Doing little Debian packages is
scaling *down* considerably for it. :)
I hadn't realized that the X Strike Force was still using quilt even after
your switch to using git. Interesting.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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