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Branding patches with git and vim

by ao2, January 6, 2010
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In linux kernel development there are informal, and yet quite solid, conventions which apply when sharing patches and collaborating during the —public and undisclosed— phase of code peer-review.

As some of you may know, all the communications about kernel development happen via e-mail, and there are some tools to ease the task of preparing and sending patches; these tools allow some degree of customization, or “branding” like I am calling it in this case.

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git-commit with date in the past

by ao2, October 30, 2009
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When setting up the git repository for VRM I wanted to preserve the project development history, but I hadn't used any real VCS tool back then, I just used to make timed backups with a scheme like this: 

$ ls -1
vrm-0.1.py
vrm-0.1_237.py
vrm-0.2.py
vrm-0.3-beta-2006-03-28.py
vrm-0.3.beta-2006-05-11.py
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