Linux: Using Git With the -mm Kernel
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A brief discussion on thelkml began whan it was asked why Andrew Morton [interview] isn't using git [story] to manage his -mm Linux kernel tree [story]. Andrew summarized, "because everthing would take me 100x longer?" He went on to explain that this is because he and Linus have a different way of working, "he reverts about one patch a month. I drop tens a day.
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He never _alters_ patches. 2.6.15-mm1 had about 200 patches which modify earlier patches and which get rolled up into the patch-which-they-modify before going upstream."
Andrew went on to note that even if he took the time to manage the -mm tree with git, it wouldn't be all that useful to people, "my tree at any random point in time is a random piece of doesn't-even-compile-let-alone-run crap, believe me. Often not all the patches even apply. I don't think there's much point in exposing people to something like that." That said, Andrew is exploring offering each -mm release under git, or even managing the individual patches themeselves with git.Full Story |
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