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[PATCH 4/6] Documentation: Remove outdated info about -git patches

From Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 4/6] Documentation: Remove outdated info about -git patches
Date 2017-05-15 15:50 +0200
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Since the 3.2 cycle, there were no -git patches/tarballs on kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
---
 Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst | 40 +-----------------------------
 Documentation/process/howto.rst            |  9 -------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 48 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
index a0d058cc6d25..eaf3e0296d6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ possible.
 
 This is a good branch to run for people who want to help out testing
 development kernels but do not want to run some of the really experimental
-stuff (such people should see the sections about -git and -mm kernels below).
+stuff (such people should see the sections about -mm kernels below).
 
 The -rc patches are not incremental, they apply to a base 4.x kernel, just
 like the 4.x.y patches described above. The kernel version before the -rcN
@@ -380,44 +380,6 @@ Here are 3 examples of how to apply these patches::
 	$ mv linux-4.7.3 linux-4.8-rc5		# rename the kernel source dir
 
 
-The -git kernels
-================
-
-These are daily snapshots of Linus' kernel tree (managed in a git
-repository, hence the name).
-
-These patches are usually released daily and represent the current state of
-Linus's tree. They are more experimental than -rc kernels since they are
-generated automatically without even a cursory glance to see if they are
-sane.
-
--git patches are not incremental and apply either to a base 4.x kernel or
-a base 4.x-rc kernel -- you can see which from their name.
-A patch named 4.7-git1 applies to the 4.7 kernel source and a patch
-named 4.8-rc3-git2 applies to the source of the 4.8-rc3 kernel.
-
-Here are some examples of how to apply these patches::
-
-	# moving from 4.7 to 4.7-git1
-
-	$ cd ~/linux-4.7			# change to the kernel source dir
-	$ patch -p1 < ../patch-4.7-git1		# apply the 4.7-git1 patch
-	$ cd ..
-	$ mv linux-4.7 linux-4.7-git1		# rename the kernel source dir
-
-	# moving from 4.7-git1 to 4.8-rc2-git3
-
-	$ cd ~/linux-4.7-git1			# change to the kernel source dir
-	$ patch -p1 -R < ../patch-4.7-git1	# revert the 4.7-git1 patch
-						# we now have a 4.7 kernel
-	$ patch -p1 < ../patch-4.8-rc2		# apply the 4.8-rc2 patch
-						# the kernel is now 4.8-rc2
-	$ patch -p1 < ../patch-4.8-rc2-git3	# apply the 4.8-rc2-git3 patch
-						# the kernel is now 4.8-rc2-git3
-	$ cd ..
-	$ mv linux-4.7-git1 linux-4.8-rc2-git3	# rename source dir
-
-
 The -mm patches and the linux-next tree
 =======================================
 
diff --git a/Documentation/process/howto.rst b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
index 1260f60d4cb9..340fa18ff341 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/howto.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
@@ -314,15 +314,6 @@ The file Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst in the kernel tree
 documents what kinds of changes are acceptable for the -stable tree, and
 how the release process works.
 
-4.x -git patches
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-These are daily snapshots of Linus' kernel tree which are managed in a
-git repository (hence the name.) These patches are usually released
-daily and represent the current state of Linus' tree.  They are more
-experimental than -rc kernels since they are generated automatically
-without even a cursory glance to see if they are sane.
-
 Subsystem Specific kernel trees and patches
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-- 
2.11.0

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