Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 21, 2005, 21:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20050421213811.GA31207@elf.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050421190956.GA7443@pasky.ji.cz>

Hi!

It seems that someone should write "Kernel hacker's guide to git"... Documentation/git.txt seems like good place. I guess I'll do it.

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> > just plain vanilla" without rm -rf?
> 
> git cancel will give you "plain last commit". If you need plain vanilla,
> the "hard way" now is to just do
> 
> 	commit-id >.git/HEAD
> 
> but your current HEAD will be lost forever. Or do
> 
> 	git fork vanilla ~/vanilla linus
> 
> and you will have the vanilla tree tracking linus in ~/vanilla.

Ok, thanks.

> I'm not yet sure if we should have some Cogito interface for doing this
> and what its semantics should be.

What is Cogito, BTW?

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> > I see quite a lot of problems with fsck-tree. Is that normal?
> > (I ran out of disk space few times during different operations...)
> 
> Actually, in case your tree is older than about two days, I hope you did
> the convert-cache magic or fetched a fresh tree?

No, I did not anything like that. I guess it is rm -rf time, then...

									Pavel

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