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. I have found a video in which Mr. GregKH has explained how he applies patches to the stable tree. But this video is short and needs several view to understand what is going on.
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.
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. I'm in the process of making developers available upto minute code under change.So duplicate patch problem can be solved. So I request kernel experts their words.
Regards, Amit Kumar