[Gta04-owner] building the kernel

[Neil Jerram]

"Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> writes:

> So finally I took one and used Copy&Paste to add the functionality I could
> find in other patches or trees. I.e.. circumventing all the good features of git
> and rarely using a merge operation.

Nowadays I would use "git remote", "git fetch" and "git cherry-pick" (or
branch duplication and rebasing) to do that kind of thing; so really
manual copy and paste shouldn't be needed, even when useful code is
spread across many trees.

However I was using git for a long time before I discovered and
understood about git remotes, so I think I can understand the
situation.  Git really has a lot of complexity and takes a long time to
get fully into.

      Neil