Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

[Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 18:24, Jeff Garzik enlightened us thusly:
> Things in git-land are moving at lightning speed, and usability has
> improved a lot since my post a month ago: 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11
>
>
>
> 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-20050622.tar.bz2
>
> tarball build-deps:  zlib, libcurl, libcrypto (openssl)
>
> install tarball:  unpack && make && sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
>
> jgarzik helper scripts, not in official git distribution:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-new-branch
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-changes-script
>
> After reading the rest of this document, come back and update your copy
> of git to the latest:
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git.git
>
>
> 2) download a linux kernel tree for the very first time
>
> $ mkdir -p linux-2.6/.git
> $ cd linux-2.6
> $ rsync -a --delete --verbose --stats --progress \
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
> \          <- word-wrapped backslash; sigh
>      .git/

Suggest noting that this first rsync can take quite awhile, modulo
available bandwidth, because one is bootstrapping or populating the 
repository (my terminology might be incorrect).

Kurt