>at qlogic we now keep the backports as branches in >our git tree and this, i find, is much easier to >handle. because: > >* viewing and navigating backport source becomes > _much_ easier. >* merges are easier -- patches are much more fragile > than branches. >* comparisons are easier -- checking for differences > between backports and between a backport and the > canonical source is faster and more convenient... >* changesets are readable. trying to decipher diffs > to patches is medically proven to take months, if not > years, off your life.
Let's add that you don't need patches to patches, and the order patches are applied isn't determined alphabetically. >anyway, what do you think? is there anyway i could >convince you to dump the backport patches and put >all the backports in branches? i'm willing to do the >legwork if you see value... I would love OFED to dump the patch directory concept. - Sean _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
