From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Sorenson Subject: Re: [doc]playing with git, and netdev/libata-dev trees Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 02:19:22 -0600 Message-ID: <4295868A.5070509@tuxrocks.com> References: <42955DF7.4000805@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 26 10:23:10 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbDc9-0002O5-54 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 10:21:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261270AbVEZIWX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 04:22:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261275AbVEZIWX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 04:22:23 -0400 Received: from www.tuxrocks.com ([64.62.190.123]:24334 "EHLO tuxrocks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261270AbVEZIT3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 04:19:29 -0400 Received: from [10.0.0.10] (sorenson.dsl.csolutions.net [216.190.206.130]) (authenticated bits=0) by tuxrocks.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4Q8JNG3007854 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 26 May 2005 02:19:25 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Git Mailing List In-Reply-To: <42955DF7.4000805@pobox.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Hopefully, this email can quick-start some people on git. I think the quick-start is great. Definitely needed to get people up-to-speed with git. > 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-20050526.tar.bz2 A tarball of git will work, but it's a big bootstrap, and will need periodic updating. I'm curious whether we couldn't make a git-bootstrap that contained a significantly stripped-down version that did nothing other than bootstrap git. A single program/file (perl script perhaps?) that... mkdir git cd git rsync -rl rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ .git echo rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git > .git/branches/origin beginning with .git/HEAD, start extracting files ...and nothing more. Then, we could tell people to just download git-bootstrap and run it to create an up-to-date git repo. Frank - -- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK Systems Manager, Computer Science Department Brigham Young University frank@tuxrocks.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFClYaKaI0dwg4A47wRAp1MAKCcGK8vTWtw1gnTCjFbMFpbZkSO8QCff5RE NC8Z7RVHFP4qcbKRMSJ2rzg= =fXsr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----