Re: [PATCH 0/3] ftrace: start stop infrastructure changes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 01:53:18 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Note, I'm now trying to learn to use git. I am experimenting with
> using a combination of quilt and git. I set up a git repo at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
>
> This series is in the tip/devel branch.
>
> I'll put my changes in that branch and then send out the patches
> as I have always done. But the introduction will list the shortlog
> of the changes, then followed by the patches themselves.
>
> I do this by using git format-patch and then having quilt send
> out the queue that was produced.
>
> I plan on automating a lot of this, but for this run, it was
> done manually.

Worked fine on my side - and it's easier than processing patches in
email: the ordering and dependencies are more obvious.

The only flip side is that it's harder to fix small details in commit
logs in an ad-hoc way. So be prepared to see more nitpicking from me
for such details :-)

Ingo
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