On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, David Howells wrote:
>
> > The kernel won't compile with just patch #1 applied. Patches shouldn't go
> > into git in that manner.
>
> It's easier to review them in that manner. If you don't think git is up to it,
> then combine them.
It's not that git isn't up to it, it's that it's unacceptable to have a
series that doesn't compile half-way.
They are NOT easier to review - part of review is whether the damn thing
works or not. If it doesn't compile, it doesn't work.
The "git issue" is that git makes it really really easy to find bugs by
automated means through bisection, and if a series doesn't compile
half-way, that measn that the series cannot be tested half-way and it's
much much harder to say which part of the series actually broke anything.
Linus
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