Re: git guidance

Dave Quigley
2007-11-28T15:17:48Z

There is a project listed on the kernel.org git page called guilt. I
find it very useful. It is much more responsive than stgit and it
actually has a git backend which quilt does not.

git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/guilt.git

There is a tutorial associated with guilt which explains the commands
pretty well. The only thing that I find a problem with guilt is
sometimes I forget to pop/push the patches to the right place before
editing them. Actually that is less of a problem with guilt and more of
a problem with me :) Two of the main features that I find very useful
since I track the head of Linus's tree are guilt-rebase and then
guilt-patchbomb for sending patches.

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 00:20 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Nov 27 2007 23:33, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >It didn't work too well. The first result was one of maximal
> >embarrassment: I produced a patch that didn't even compile when
> >applied to the official tree. This shouldn't happen with git, right?
> >Well, it did. So now I'm back to keeping a virgin kernel source tree
> >alongside my development area in order to produce diffs. That can't
> >be right?
> >
> No, it can't. Use stgit/quilt ;p
>
> >Does somebody have a step by step tutorial for doing the standard
> >"edit - test - modify - retest - submit - edit - resubmit" sequence
> >with GIT? Is there a GIT newsgroup or mailinglist? Or should I just
> >post my silly questions to LKML?
> >
> http://www.linuxworld.com/video/?bcpid=1138309735&bclid=1213841149&bctid=1221911905
>
> James Bottomley's intro helps a lot.
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