Re: How to switch kernel customizations from 2.6.15.6 to 2.6.16?

[Matt McCutchen <hashproduct@verizon.net>]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:32 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The beauty of git should be (and maybe that's not entirely true simply 
> because of practical concerns) that there really need not be any notion of 
> "more official".

I understand this, and it is one of several reasons why I prefer git to
other version control systems.  However, I thought there would be a
single official kernel repository even if git didn't require it.  Junio
explained to me that both yours and the stable one are official for
different purposes.  I think I will use the stable one because it is
current enough for my needs.

>  - the more fundamental one is that when you start mixing branches, you 
>    have to be very careful if you expect the upstream projects to pull the 
>    changes _back_. [...]

True.  It might help several branches coordinate development if a commit
could be marked as "equivalent" to another commit so that, if both were
involved in a merge, one could be thrown out.

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