git help needed for 2.6.34 kernel branch revival

Paul Fox pgf at laptop.org
Tue Aug 17 17:26:35 EDT 2010


daniel wrote:
 > On 17 August 2010 15:08, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
 > > would it work better to merge each of the the -stable kernels
 > > in turn?  because then you'd probably get the undo of the -stable
 > > change along with the mainline change that supercedes it.  but that
 > > might not work, and it would be a lot of merges.
 > 
 > Not sure what you mean. Can you give a more specific example?
 > Do you mean UNmerge the 2.6.31-stable kernels?
 > (6 were already merged...)

i probably don't understand the problem well enough.  i was
thinking that merging in the rest of the -stable kernels (and
there would be a lot of them, from 2.6.31.7 to 2.6.34.N) would
get you closer, in a more automated way.  the more i think about
it the more doubtful i am.

paul
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