RE: [GIT/PATCH 0/5] Re: unfair servicing of DomU vbd requests

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 07:12 +0000, MaoXiaoyun wrote:
> I've tried to clone, but confront this error,  did I do right?

Your command will try and clone my default branch, which I'm not sure I
have configured (I don't really want one since no branch is particularly
special in my tree).

I would recommend that instead of completely cloning a fresh tree for
each tree you are interested in that you just add a new remote to your
existing tree, which could be a clone of e..g xen.git or Linus' tree.

e.g:

Once:
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
$ cd linux-2.6

Then for each new tree you are interested in:
linux-2.6$ git remote add ianc git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/linux-2.6.git
linux-2.6$ git fetch ianc
[...pulls in updates from ianc...]
linux-2.6$ git log ianc/irq-fairness

etc. See "git remote --help" for more info.

Since my irq-fairness branch likely doesn't stand alone you will
probably need to merge it into your current 2.6.38 based head (something
like Konrad's 2.6.38 branch for example). e.g.

linux-2.6$ git merge ianc/irq-fairness

Alternatively (and better) you can pull a single remote branch and merge
it into your current head. e.g.
linux-2.6$ git pull git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/linux-2.6.git irq-fairness

Compared with the git merge approach this creates a more informative
automated merge commit log.

The arguments to git pull are taken literally from the pull request:
> > > The following changes since commit c5ae07bb307b658c8458f29ca77d237aec0f9327:
> > > Ian Campbell (1):
> > > xen: events: remove dom0 specific xen_create_msi_irq
> > > 
> > > are available in the git repository at:
> > > 
> > > git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/linux-2.6.git irq-fairness

Ian.