On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:30:25PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc2/2.6.16-rc2-mm1/broken-out/linus.patch
> > applies cleanly to
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.16-rc2.tar.bz2
>
> Indeed. That combination does work.
>
> And that's the same linus.patch as I extracted from:
>
> ~akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc2//2.6.16-rc2-mm1/2.6.16-rc2-mm1-broken-out.tar.bz2
>
> So no problem with you linus.patch.
>
> The difference -might- be a different linux-2.6.16-rc2 with the above
> than with hg's http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6, with the command "hg
> co 19933", which is the release tagged v2.6.16-rc2:
>
> changeset: 19933:6a79f5a2de38
> tag: v2.6.16-rc2
> user: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> date: Fri Feb 3 14:03:08 2006 +0800
> summary: Linux v2.6.16-rc2
>
> My current suspicions ... a combination of:
>
> 1) a congenital mental defect that causes me to find git difficult to use,
> and led to me thinking something had failed when it had not, and
> 2) further fallout from some apparent burp in the production of the hg
> (mercurial) linux trees that Matt fixed today.
The git->hg conversion script may be borked right now. The upgrade of
master.kernel.org to AMD64 happened to coincide with a new Mercurial
release with a new convert-repo script which may have introduced a
bug. I'll try to sort it out tomorrow.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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