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Statistics for the 3.3 development cycle

Statistics for the 3.3 development cycle

Posted Mar 8, 2012 9:47 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
Parent article: Statistics for the 3.3 development cycle

> Greg Kroah-Hartman heads the list again. This time around, almost all of
> his changes were deletions; a lot of code was removed from staging this
> time around, often because it graduated to the mainline kernel

If it was simply files moving from one directory to another, wouldn't git's automagic rename tracking reduce these diffs to 0 lines?


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Statistics for the 3.3 development cycle

Posted Mar 8, 2012 14:16 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

For whatever reason, staging graduations tend not to be done as renames. Instead, a new driver is added in mainline, followed by the removal from staging later.

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