Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfstests: make the mode consistent for all the test scripts

["Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jeffpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:08:23AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> A consistant mode sounds fine to me, but we'd have to pull this in as
> git-pull not as patch, right?

Depends on how you manage xfs-dev.git.  patch(1) won't work, but git-apply
will. Personally, I use guilt [1], which let's me push/pop patches much
like quilt, but since it uses git-apply, it works with all the fancy things
git diffs offer.

> Also for some reason some modes seem to change when actually running
> xfstests which makes git barf when pulling into such a tree again, not
> sure where that comes from.

Hrm, I haven't seen this yet.

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jsipek/guilt.git;a=summary

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