Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:55:11 +0100 | | Subject | Re: git guidance | | From | Kristoffer Ericson <> |
| |
Greetings,
Google is your friend. If you're looking for irc channels you can always try #git at irc.freenode.net Git howto/tutorial/... doesn't belong in the kernel mailinglist.
Best wishes Kristoffer Ericson
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:33:21 +0100 Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:
> So I've watched Linus' Google Tech Talk about git and let him convince > me that I've been stupid to use CVS, that Subversion is even worse, > and the only sensible approach is to use git. Went ahead and tried to > convert my driver development to git. > > It didn't work too well. The first result was one of maximal > embarrassment: I produced a patch that didn't even compile when > applied to the official tree. This shouldn't happen with git, right? > Well, it did. So now I'm back to keeping a virgin kernel source tree > alongside my development area in order to produce diffs. That can't > be right? > > Obviously I'm still being stupid. (Probably an aftereffect of using > CVS for too long.) But where do I turn for guidance? I read all the > docs and READMEs I could find, but I still don't understand why GIT > doesn't produce the results I need, and what to do differently. > > Does somebody have a step by step tutorial for doing the standard > "edit - test - modify - retest - submit - edit - resubmit" sequence > with GIT? Is there a GIT newsgroup or mailinglist? Or should I just > post my silly questions to LKML? > > TIA > > -- > Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc > Bonn, Germany > Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. > Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite) > > - 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/
|  |