[alsa-devel] [PATCH V1 01/13] Temporarily undo 2008f137e92220b98120c4803499cdddb2b0fb06

[Jon Smirl]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Mark Brown
<broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 10:37 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>> You and I can easily see how this patch can be folded into the next
>> one. Git is broken in this situation. I've reported the issue to the
>> git people and they acknowledge it, but no one has fixed it. Git's
>> merge strategy does not handle the case of a file splitting. When git
>> tries to merge this one-liner into the next patch that splits the
>> files, it does the merge wrong which then messes up the entire patch
>> stack.
>
> It should be possible to do the relevant thing by hand - it's only a one
> line change you're staging out. Like I say, not the end of the world
> anyway.

I manually edited the diff files to fix this. That not something I
like to do because it is too easy to make mistakes. Once they were
edited I could feed them back into git. This is the second time I've
hit this problem in git.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com