RPM to GIT tree integration?

RPM to GIT tree integration?

[Alex Bennee]

Hi,

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?

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.

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Re: RPM to GIT tree integration?

[Daniel Barkalow]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Alex Bennee wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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?

I haven't heard of one, but it would probably be easy to do with 
git-fast-import; you could take a look at 
contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl.

> 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.

I think the biggest benefit would actually be identifying the upstream 
kernel that has the patches applied to it, which takes a certain amount of 
inspection and familiarity with Linus's kernel repository, but not really 
a tool.

	-Daniel
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Re: RPM to GIT tree integration?

[James Davidson]

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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