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Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git?

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git?
Date 2016-10-24 23:50 +0200
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Yes and no. What are these non-git people doing with the patches? Since
> patch won't apply them, are they just reading them for personal
> enlightenment?

Oh, patch applies them fine.

They might end up not seeing some of the updates to binary files,
that's all. So things like the logo updates or some pdf file might not
work out for them, but that doesn't mean that they can't use the patch
and the resulting kernel.

             Linus

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Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-10-24 20:30 +0200
  Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-24 21:50 +0200
    Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 2016-10-24 23:10 +0200
      Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-24 23:20 +0200
        Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-10-24 23:30 +0200
          Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-24 23:50 +0200
            Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-10-25 01:20 +0200
              Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-10-25 02:10 +0200
                Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> - 2016-10-25 05:00 +0200
                Re: Linux-4.X-rcY patches can't be applied with git? Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 2016-10-25 13:40 +0200

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