Re: Creating and sending patch without git

Kumar Gaurav
2013-07-24T06:52:07Z

On Wednesday 24 July 2013 03:07 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:18:48AM +0530, Kumar Gaurav wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>>
>> I have fixed several bugs in a program in staging and now want to
>> send it to
>>
>> you before sending to maintainers. But currently i don't have git clone of
>>
>> current kernel. I had downloaded full tarball of 3.11-rc1 version.
>>
>>
>> So please tell me if there's a way to formate a mail and create a
>> path for the
>>
>> fix that i did. So that you can review my code.
>>
> The old way of creating with diff a patch still works. It is
> described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
>
> Mail the patch to yourself first.
> Save the emails as raw text including headers and everyting.
> cat email.txt | patch -p1
>
> Make sure that works before you send the patch. Normally email
> clients mess everything up. Mutt works by default but it's the
> only email client like that. Refer to
> Documentation/email-clients.txt if you have problems.
>
> But you will find that very soon using the tar ball becomes too old.
>
> Btw, you may as well wait for git. Don't rush in kernel devel work.
>
>> Curently i'm cloning kernel using git but it seems like it'll take
>> forever as
>>
>> i dnt have very fast Internet connection speed and it seems to
>> download around
>>
>> 1200MB of data from last 2hr i've completed with just 5%. So let me know if
>>
>> there's way w/o git.
> The problem as well with git is that if your connection drops in
> the middle then there is no way to recover so you have to restart.
>
> What I did was I had someone tar the .git directory and put it on
> a webpage so I could download it with wget which can recover from
> a failed connection. It still ended up corrupted so I had to chop
> into into 1MB chunks on both sides, I ran md5sum on the chunks to
> see which one was corrrupted and then just downloaded the one I
> wanted. "git clone" sucks for people with bad connections, but
> after you have the repository cloned then it's pretty great.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
Right now i have created a git repository with the tarball i had
downloaded (main repository is still getting downloaded). I'm working
using that. i hope it'll work well for me till git completes cloning the
remote repository.
Thanks for your reply.

Regards
Kumar Gaurav