Creating and sending patch without git (Sending As plain text)

Creating and sending patch without git (Sending As plain text)

[Kumar Gaurav]

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.


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.


Regards

Kumar Gaurav

Re: Creating and sending patch without git (Sending As plain text)

[Julia Lawall]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, 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.

You can read Documentation/SubmittingPatches, compare your results to what 
you see on mailing lists, and send your patch to yourself and be sure that 
you can save your message as is and apply it.

julia

Re: Creating and sending patch without git (Sending As plain text)

[Peter Senna Tschudin]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Kumar Gaurav
<kumargauravgupta3@gmail.com> 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.
>
>
> 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.
You can create a git repository from the source code you've
downloaded. See the steps:

$ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.2.tar.bz2
$ tar xvjf linux-3.10.2.tar.bz2
$ cd linux-3.10.2/
$ git init
$ git add *
$ git commit -m 'initial commit'

It is important to do the git commands 'before' doing any change to
the source code. After creating the git repository, all git commands
should work.

>
>
> Regards
>
> Kumar Gaurav
>
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Re: Creating and sending patch without git (Sending As plain text)

[Nicolas Palix]

Hi all,

Kumar, I think you should check the --depth option of git clone if
you're only interested in
sending patches.

--depth <depth>

Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified
number of revisions. A shallow repository has a number of limitations
(you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor into it), but is
adequate if you are only interested in the recent history of a large
project with a long history, and would want to send in fixes as
patches.

Regards.


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Peter Senna Tschudin
<peter.senna@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Kumar Gaurav
> <kumargauravgupta3@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
> You can create a git repository from the source code you've
> downloaded. See the steps:
>
> $ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.2.tar.bz2
> $ tar xvjf linux-3.10.2.tar.bz2
> $ cd linux-3.10.2/
> $ git init
> $ git add *
> $ git commit -m 'initial commit'
>
> It is important to do the git commands 'before' doing any change to
> the source code. After creating the git repository, all git commands
> should work.
>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Kumar Gaurav
>>
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>
>
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