Hi, On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:59:11AM +0000, Damien Zammit wrote:
> Yes, that is the usual way to manage changes, but the entire NetBSD > source tree is very large, and we only have about 100 lines of changes > in total that I am trying to upstream. [...] I feel like I've heard this story before... A long time ago, when I was involved with the KGI project, they were afraid of importing the entire Linux source tree in CVS to do their modifications -- so instead they build their own fragile, slow, under-documented etc. patch system on top... Of course I'm sure Debian's system is a lot less problematic than what KGI rolled on their own -- but on the other hand, I feel that there is even less justification for such manoeuvres nowadays, considering how effortlessly Git deals with large source trees... Putting it more bluntly: so the NetBSD source tree is large... And? This is not my call to make of course: but I'd strongly recommend to consider using revision control the way it's meant to be used: rather than working around something that -- best I can tell -- isn't even a problem to begin with... -antrik-
