Re: how to find outstanding patches in non-linux-2.6 repositories?

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> How do I get a list of commits in the 'powerpc' tree, which are not part
> of the 'linux-2.6' tree? The git tutorial has a section 'Working with
> Others', but the examples dont work for me. Probably because
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git has
> no info that it is not the "mainline tree".
> All I need is a list of individual commits in that tree, which are not
> (yet) in "mainline".

First, get a kernel tree, let's say that you just get the standard one 
and thus my head will be in "origin" (and perhaps HEAD too, unless you 
decide to do some stuff of your own). Then just do something like

   git fetch \
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git \
	master:powerpc

which gets the master branch from the powerpc.git tree into your "powerpc" 
branch (or set up a .git/remotes/powerpc thing if you expect to do more of 
this).

Then you can just do

	gitk origin..powerpc

(or "git log" or "git-whatchanged -p" instead of "gitk") to see the 
commits that are in powerpc but not in "origin".

		Linus