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From:	Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.
Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:52:14
Message-Id:	`YU4QRkACzkQmIFX4@ACM`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch. by Marco Rebhan

1	Hello, Marco.
2
3	On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:56:39 +0200, Marco Rebhan wrote:
4	> On Friday, 24 September 2021 10:49:53 CEST Peter Humphrey wrote:
5	> > This raises the question of which kernel to work with: vanilla source
6	> > or Gentoo?
7
8	> Gentoo's patches are kept minimal so it shouldn't really matter (and I
9	> don't think they'd touch this part of the code anyway). Personally I'd
10	> make the patches against the vanilla sources.
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12	That's just what I'm doing, for these reasons. I'm not even sure Gentoo
13	maintains a git repository with all the gentoo-sources realeases.
14
15	> -Marco
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17	--
18	Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).