From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 05:11:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.7
Message-ID: <20050424051130.GA25332@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050423220236.26f834ee.pj@sgi.com>

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:02:36PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> The winning solution via private email:
> 
> 	mkdir linux
> 	cd linux
> 	git init rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> Another email was missing the 'scm' term.
> 
> I still don't see how to get to the official 2.6.12-rc3:
> 
> 	a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb

 From your "linux" directory do:
 	cd ..
	mkdir 2.6.12-rc3
	cd 2.6.12-rc3
	mkdir .git
	cp -rl ../linux/.git/object .git/objects
	TREE_HEAD=`cat-file commit a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb | head -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d " "`
	echo "$TREE_HEAD" > .git/HEAD
	read-tree $TREE_HEAD
	checkout-cache -a
	update-cache --refresh

And you should have a 2.6.12-rc3 tree, all ready to commit new changes
into.

Or at least that's how my wrapper scripts do it, I haven't converted
them over to the "easier" git-pasky commands yet :)

thanks,

greg k-h