Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 - Watchdog patches

From: Paul Jackson (pj_at_sgi.com)
Date: 12/30/03

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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

    Another possibility I like is to recreate my changes (what few so far
    ...) against a clean bk tree, before sending. Hide all my internal
    iterations and changes from others.

    I will pull frequently and liberally into the bk clones that I use to
    track 2.6, 2.6-mm and whatever else I am based on. These in turn I pull
    into my main working bk tree, along with pulling in the various changes
    I have in progress, each from their own bk clone.

    Then when it comes time to send out a patch, I:

      1) Generate an old fashioned patch (bk export -tpatch),
         containing just the revisions relevant to what I will send.
      2) Clone a fresh bk tree that is closest to whatever
         the recipient of my patch would like to work with
      3) Apply the patch to the fresh clone, generating a
         clean history of one change for just that patch.
      4) Double check that that builds and boots.
      5) Then send that change out, usually by exporting it as a
         -second- old fashioned patch, since for reasons not
         relevant here, I end up sending patches, not bk pulls,
         down stream.

    The objective being:

      My final "published work" is that patch - it should be
      as clean as practical.

    By going into and back out of old fashioned patches, I isolate
    the anal history that bk kept of all my interim changes from
    the rest of the world. 

    -- 
                          I won't rest till it's the best ...
                          Programmer, Linux Scalability
                          Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373
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