Re: using git with linux-omap

[green <greenfreedom10@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, 2008-12-25, 360, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:46:31PM -0600, green wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008.12.24, 359, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:24:19PM -0600, green wrote:
> > > > I have cloned linux-omap-2.6 and created a local branch.  In the local branch I 
> > > > have made one very simple commit with a single line change to Makefile for use 
> > > > when cross-compiling (arm-linux-gnueabi-).  I would like to be able to rebase 
> > > > that branch (just the 1 commit) onto any commit in the master branch so that I 
> > > > can test N810 builds using git-bisect without modifying the Makefile every 
> > > > time.  I can easily move the branch forward to the latest commit with 'git 
> > > > rebase master' (with the local branch active) but something like 'git rebase 
> > > > v2.6.27-omap1' returns merge errors.  Of course that 1 commit will apply easily 
> > > > to that specific tree.
> > > 
> > > hmmm, something like git rebase --onto HEAD v2.6.27-omap1 <your_branch>
> > > should work.
> > 
> > I got a bunch of merge conflicts this way.
> 
> maybe I got the parameters wrong. git help rebase will have the correct
> answer. But there are two other easier ways to do it:
> 
> a. with git cherry-pick:
> $ git checkout -b newbranch v2.6.27-omap1
> $ git cherry-pick <commit id for your Makefile change>

This works.

> b. symlink: just create a symbolic link from arm-none-linux-gnueabi-* to
> arm-linux-*, something like:
> 
> $ cd /path/to/compiler
> $ for i in `ls`; do ln -s $i ${i/none-linux-gnueabi/linux}; done
> 
> this might help. To be sure the command is right before really executing
> it, change ln -s to echo and see if the paths are ok.

And yes, this would work too.

Thanks!

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