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From: James Davidson <james@greycastle.net>
To: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RPM to GIT tree integration?
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:57:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090207055747.GA5788@greycastle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2cdc9f30902060905mb605a93oe8f9cc5795f3e008@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 05:05:49PM +0000, Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:
> This is a wild shot in the dark but I thought I'd better ask in case
> some one has. Has anyone created a script/tool that can take a src RPM and
> apply it's patches (in sequence) to an existing GIT tree?

This may be what you are looking for:
http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2008-07.html#rpm2git

> In my case I just want a GIT tree for a vendor kernel. I could just
> prep an SRC RPM and commit the thing wholesale into GIT and start
> hacking but then I'd loose all the history benefits.

There is also a "How to use rpm2git" screencast:
http://blip.tv/file/1155469

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james@greycastle.net               //\
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-07  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-06 17:05 RPM to GIT tree integration? Alex Bennee
2009-02-06 18:29 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-02-07  5:57 ` James Davidson [this message]

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