Which repo should I clone?

[dmurvihill@gmail.com (Dolan Murvihill)]

Thanks everyone for the help. I just got linux-next :).

On 07/29/2013 05:41 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:25:53 +0300, Alexandru Juncu said:
>
>> For a little more unstable version, there's the linux-next repo (I
>> think the address is this [4]).
> For some definition of "little more unstable'. :)  V3.10 is out, and
> Linus just tagged v3.11-rc3 a few hours ago, which means that 3.11 will
> escape in about a month.  Linux-next is, however, what will hopefully
> become 3.12 sometime around November.  Be prepared to find weird stuff
> and bugs - I manage to find several bugs per kernel release just running
> it on my laptop.
>
> Having said that, running linux-next is a great way to get a lot of
> kernel experience fairly fast, just from finding bugs and then reporting
> them, and seeing if you can figure out why you hit them (git bisect will
> become your best friend very quickly).  And the Linux community probably
> needs more good testers even more than it needs more coders...
>
> Take frequent backups of your test system - there's zero guarantee that
> linux-next won't have any ext4 or btrfs bugs that will eat your root filesystem
> or turn your dog green.
>
> Note that due to the way the linux-next repo is built (it's a nightly rebase),
> you'll get bad results if you just use 'git clone' and then try to 'git pull'
> it to update it.
>
> You need to do something like this:
>
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> $ git remote add linux-next git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
> $ git fetch linux-next
> $ git fetch --tags linux-next
>
> and then you have a copy of linux-next.  To update it, you want to:
>
> $ git remote update    (do *not* do a 'git pull', you'll be sorry :)
>
> Note that although every linux-next daily is tagged with a next-20130729 type tag,
> you can't effectively git bisect between two next-* tags, though you *can*
> bisect between one of Linus's v3.12-rc9 tags and a next-* tag (and if you know
> about git enough to figure out the Linus commit that was the base of
> (say) next-20130722 you can use that as one end of a bisect and next-20130729
> as the other end).