Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261985AbVD1KW1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:22:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261969AbVD1KW1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:22:27 -0400 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:61864 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261962AbVD1KWQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:22:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4270B94B.30604@dgreaves.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:22:03 +0100 From: David Greaves User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek Cc: kernel list , pasky@ucw.cz, torvalds@osdl.org, Greg KH , GIT Mailing Lists Subject: Re: kernel hacker's git howto References: <20050428085657.GA30800@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050428085657.GA30800@elf.ucw.cz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1974 Lines: 64 I think a lot of people on the git list would like to see this - please CC :) David Pavel Machek wrote: >Hi! > >Here's my current version of git HOWTO. I'd like your comments... > > Kernel hacker's guide to git > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 2005 Pavel Machek > >You can get cogito at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/ >. Compile it, and place it somewhere in $PATH. Then you can get kernel >by running > >mkdir clean-cg; cd clean-cg >cg-init rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git > >... Do cg-update origin to pickup latest changes from Linus. You can >do cg-diff to see what changes you done in your local tree. cg-cancel >will kill any such changes, and cg-commit will make them permanent. > >To get diff between your working tree and "next tree up", do cg-diff >-r origin: . If you want to get the same diff but separated >patch-by-patch, do cg-mkpatch origin: . If you want to pull changes >from the "up" tree to your working tree, do cg-pull origin followed by >cg-merge origin. > > >How to set up your trees so that you can cooperate with linus >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >What I did: > >Created clean-cg. Initialized straight from Linus (as above). Then I >created "nice" tree, good for Linus to pull from > >mkdir /data/l/linux-good; cd /data/l/linux-good >cg-init /data/l/clean-cg > >and then my working tree, based on linux-good > >mkdir /data/l/linux-cg; cd /data/l/linux-cg >cg-init /data/l/linux-good > >. I do my work in linux-cg. If someone sends me nice patch I should >pass up, I apply it to linux-good with nice message and do > >cd /data/l/linux-cg; cg-pull origin; cg-merge origin > > > -- - 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/