A bit of quilt

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Feb 2 02:10:56 EST 2017


On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 05:11:32AM +0000, Amit Kumar wrote:
> 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.

Do you have questions about it?

> > 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.

What duplicate patch problem?

> So I request kernel experts their words.

What question do you have?

thanks,

greg k-h



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