From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20050625172902.GA2852@redhat.com> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050622224003.GA21298@redhat.com> <42BCD092.6050201@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 25 19:25:48 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmEPS-0004Sd-4X for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:25:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261169AbVFYR3S (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261201AbVFYR3S (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:31913 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261169AbVFYR3K (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:10 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5PHT9fN005921; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:09 -0400 Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.1]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j5PHT5u29224; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:09 -0400 Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5PHT4Ha003583; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:04 -0400 Received: (from davej@localhost) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j5PHT2Yg003574; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:29:02 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: devserv.devel.redhat.com: davej set sender to davej@redhat.com using -f To: Jeff Garzik Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42BCD092.6050201@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:33:38PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > > Things in git-land are moving at lightning speed, and usability has > > > improved a lot since my post a month ago: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11 > > > > > > > > > > > > 1) installing git > > > > > > git requires bootstrapping, since you must have git installed in order > > > to check out git.git (git repo), and linux-2.6.git (kernel repo). I > > > have put together a bootstrap tarball of today's git repository. > > > > > > Download tarball from: > > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-20050622.tar.bz2 > > > > > >daily snapshots (refreshed once an hour) are available at: > >http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/git/ > > > > I was about to link to this, but a problem arose: your snapshots don't > include the .git/objects directory. This is intentional. Why is this a problem ? In the same way, the bitkeeper snapshots I used to do never included Bitkeeper/, and CVS snapshots don't include the CVS/ dirs. > Also, a git-latest.tar.gz symlink would be nice. That's doable. Dave