Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net writes:
Vegard Nossum vegard.nossum@oracle.com writes:
This is a new document based on my 2022 blog post:
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/backporting-patches-using-git
Although this is aimed at stable contributors and distro maintainers, it does also contain useful tips and tricks for anybody who needs to resolve merge conflicts.
By adding this to the kernel as documentation we can more easily point to it e.g. from stable emails about failed backports, as well as allow the community to modify it over time if necessary.
I've added this under process/ since it also has process/applying-patches.rst. Another interesting document is maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst which maybe should eventually refer to this one, but I'm leaving that as a future cleanup.
Thanks to Harshit Mogalapalli for helping with the original blog post as well as this updated document and Bagas Sanjaya for providing thoughtful feedback.
v2: fixed heading style, link style, placeholder style, other comments
So this seems generally good and useful. I have a few small comments, none of which necessarily block merging it in its current form:
I would like to see an ack/reviewed-by tag by others with experience with this task if possible. The lack of complaints is a good start, but not always indicative of a lack of disagreement...:)
Might this be better placed in Documentation/maintainer?
Colordiff looks cool, but I'd at least drop in a mention of the Emacs ediff mode, which offers (I believe) a lot of the same functionality.
So I never got an answer on any of this ... I've gone ahead and applied the patch on the theory that it clearly hasn't upset anybody; I do still think we should consider moving it to the maintainer manual, though.
Thanks,
jon