- Fix repeated word "when" in backporting documentation
- Remove trailing whitespace after '$' character
These issues were reported by checkpatch.pl. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Abhinav Saxena <xandfury@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241107061911.106040-1-xandfury@gmail.com
This addresses a few comments/issues in my v2 submission:
- repeated word: 'run' from kernel test robot
- emacs/ediff mode from Jon Corbet
- various comments from Willy Tarreau
- more backporting advice from Ben Hutchings
- a couple more cherry-pick tips from Harshit Mogalapalli
- add a bit about stable submissions
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023135722.949510-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is a new document based on my 2022 blog post:
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/backporting-patches-using-git
Although this is aimed at stable contributors and distro maintainers,
it does also contain useful tips and tricks for anybody who needs to
resolve merge conflicts.
By adding this to the kernel as documentation we can more easily point
to it e.g. from stable emails about failed backports, as well as allow
the community to modify it over time if necessary.
I've added this under process/ since it also has
process/applying-patches.rst. Another interesting document is
maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst which maybe should eventually refer
to this one, but I'm leaving that as a future cleanup.
Thanks to Harshit Mogalapalli for helping with the original blog post
as well as this updated document and Bagas Sanjaya for providing
thoughtful feedback.
v2: fixed heading style, link style, placeholder style, other comments
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20230303162553.17212-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com/
Cc: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Rule: stable@vger.kernel.org'or'commit
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20230824092325.1464227-1-vegard.nossum%40oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230824092325.1464227-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
