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This adds short intro to git aimed at kernel hackers. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> --- commit addb0833bdadda14495d66749e6cb95b6a9445d7 tree 7e66cb899004fbec0fadae5c9265d0731d3a26f3 parent 1f9ca1262e6b27dde44d456a87c456d15f0a9b80 author <pavel@amd.(none)> 1115288688 +0200 committer <pavel@amd.(none)> 1115288688 +0200 Index: Documentation/git.txt =================================================================== --- /dev/null (tree:de65e7579ed050d324357e3040b37c561676ab7d) +++ 7e66cb899004fbec0fadae5c9265d0731d3a26f3/Documentation/git.txt (mode:100644 sha1:353d5ae7f46eeb79c058be611cb429622167f784) @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ + Kernel hacker's guide to git + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + 2005 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> + +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-update 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-update origin -- Boycott Kodak -- for their patent abuse against Java. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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