Re: First dumb question to the list :)

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 16, 2006, 22:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20060316221104.GA5898@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30603160949l655c4f9blb1e202eaf22fbfe@mail.gmail.com>

Paolo Ciarrocchi, Thu, Mar 16, 2006 18:49:16 +0100:

> What I want to do is to simply keep my repository aligned with Linus
> so I simply have to do:
> cd linus2.6
> cg-fetch

Or "git pull"

> How can I confg git in order to, by default,  use git instead of rsync ?

By editing .git/remotes/origin and replacing "rsync://rsync." with "git://git." (I think the rest is identical, but you better check).

> Now my dumb question is... since I want to build that kernel do I have
> to locally clone/copy it in order to don't modify any file on my local
> tree?

No. As long you don't modify anything under .git you can always get to any state of your kernel tree you ever had (assuming you _use_ git, of course).

Or you can just revert your changes after you've played enough with them: "git reset --hard".