On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 01:54:16PM +0000, Amit Kumar wrote:
Hi, As I know quilt is used by maintainers. But kernel source code is maintained in git repo. So I want to know how git and quilt work together.
It's up to the developer, but I use it in different ways for different kernel trees. I use it for keeping the stable kernel patches in, before those trees are released, you can see my git tree of quilt patches here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/
In mutt I have seen that a mail sent by Mr. GregKH has quilt mail as user agent and git-send-email as x-mailer. It means he is using git-send-email as a backend for quilt mail.
Yes.
Last but not least, I think if a developer starts using quilt to maintain his diferent versions of a patch, it will ease a maintainer job.
Why would it matter for a maintainer at all? You use email to send a patch to a maintainer, if it was created using git or quilt does not matter one bit. thanks, greg k-h