Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261813AbVDKPtm (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:49:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261815AbVDKPtm (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:49:42 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:58752 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261813AbVDKPtj (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:49:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:49:31 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Linus Torvalds Cc: pj@engr.sgi.com, junkio@cox.net, ross@jose.lug.udel.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more git updates.. Message-Id: <20050411084931.4aaf7ae0.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050409200709.GC3451@pasky.ji.cz> <7vhdifcbmo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050410115055.2a6c26e8.pj@engr.sgi.com> <20050410161457.2a30099a.pj@engr.sgi.com> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: SvC&!/v_Hr`MvpQ*|}uez16KH[#EmO2Tn~(r-y+&Jb}?Zhn}c:Eee&zq`cMb_[5`tT(22ms (.P84,bq_GBdk@Kgplnrbj;Y`9IF`Q4;Iys|#3\?*[:ixU(UR.7qJT665DxUP%K}kC0j5,UI+"y-Sw mn?l6JGvyI^f~2sSJ8vd7s[/CDY]apD`a;s1Wf)K[,.|-yOLmBl0 | > Useful explanation - thanks, Linus. | | Hey. You're welcome. Especially when you create good documentation for | this thing. | | Because: | | > Is this picture and description accurate: | | [ deleted, but I'll probably try to put it in an explanation file | somewhere ] | | Yes. Excellent. | | > Minor question: | > | > I must have an old version - I got 'git-0.03', but | > it doesn't have 'checkout-cache', and its 'read-tree' | > directly writes my working files. | | Yes. Crappy old tree, but it can still read my git.git directory, so you | can use it to update to my current source base. Please go into a little more detail about how to do this step... that seems to be the most basic concept that I am missing. i.e., how to find the "latest/current" tree (version/commit) and check it out (read-tree, checkout-cache, etc.). Even if I use Pasky's tools, I'd like to understand this step. | However, from a usability angle, my source-base really has been | concentrating _entirely_ on just the plumbing, and if you actually want a | faucet or a toilet _conntected_ to the plumbing, you're better off with | Pasky's tree, methinks: | | > How do I get a current version? Well, one way I see, | > and that's to pick up Pasky's: | > | > http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/git/git-pasky-base.tar.bz2 | > | > Perhaps that's the best way? | | Indeed. He's got a number of shell scripts etc to automate the boring | parts. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/