Re: [PATCH v5 00/18] Portability patches for git-1.7.1

Tor Arntsen [off-list ref] writes:

Talking about 'next' and this patch set, I have a patch that goes on
top of Gary's patch to the Makefile, to make Tru64 compile also
without ./configure (i.e. just 'make'). Should I post it here as a
diff to 'next', or is it better to wait until the cooking patches are
in mainline and take it from there? (My patch may still need some
discussion and tweaking w.r.t. what's enabled/disabled by default).

It sounds like that your change would depend on Gary's patch (rather, if
it is done independently, it could cause unnecessary conflicts).  As the
gv/portable topic is now fully part of 'next', I think the easiest would
be to base your topic directly on top of it, iow, on top of 09ce4bb
(build: propagate $DIFF to scripts, 2010-06-05).