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Make Andrew's life easier

PATCH New Matthew Wilcox 1 participant 1 message Mar 4, 2008 Documentation

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Andrew recently complained that feature-removal-schedule.txt is always generating conflicts. The reason is clear; everybody adds to the bottom of the file. The solution he proposed is to place entries at random places in the file. However, we can make the tools work for us here quite simply by adding a separator at the bottom of the file. Then diff produces a patch which contains no meaningful context and patch will happily put new entries into the file in a random order. Unfortunately, git-cherry-pick won't, but I don't think Andrew uses it, so he'll be happy anyway.

This will fail if people subsequently fail to add a separator at the bottom of a file. But then those people can be legitimately grumped at.

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index c1d1fd0..325e5b4 100644
@@ -328,3 +328,6 @@ Why:	Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to
 	code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some
 	out-of-tree driver.
 Who:	Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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