From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Molton Subject: how to import stuff? Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:40:39 +0000 Organization: The Dragon Roost Message-ID: <43D80C77.70207@f2s.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 26 00:37:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1uCl-0001m2-5t for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:37:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751189AbWAYXh2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:37:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751192AbWAYXh2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:37:28 -0500 Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]:23953 "EHLO outmail.freedom2surf.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751189AbWAYXh1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:37:27 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (i-195-137-81-187.freedom2surf.net [195.137.81.187]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0PNbQch032035 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:37:26 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051219) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi. I'd like to track the -mm tree in git. I already have a linux git tree cloned from kernel.org, so I thought I'd try git checkout -b v2.6.16-rc1 v2.6.16-rc1 git checkout -b v2.6.16-rc1-mm3 patch -Np1 < 2.6.16-rc1-mm3 So far so good - I have a tree with the patches applied but then how do I add / remove new / deleted files? git update-index --add --remove --refresh --ignore-missing seems to generate a list of said files, but I cant seem to figure out how to get it to actually do anything useful with them. git add . adds all the new files, but there seems to be no equivalent to remove files and I really dont want to run git updat-index on *every single file* that changed by hand. Surely Im missing something, but I cant see what for the life of me. The 'everyday git' document seems to focus on small changes to one or two files. managing files not yet in or removed from the source isnt something effectively covered in the document (or if it is, I missed it somehow). Its probably obvious that Im new to this kind of SCM - and I've not got on with SCMs generally... they never seem to be logical to me. TIA! -Ian