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Re: retrieving a diff from git

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FHFolkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Date
Oct 14, 2008, 17:20 UTC
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<20081014172048.GW22427@vanheusden.com>
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> > How would I retrieve the 'kmemcheck' patches from git for the 2.6.27
> > kernel? I browsed to the url
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Fx86%2Flinux-2.6-tip.git...
> > but could not find how to retrieve that diff.
> Well, you can of course just click on "commitdiff" (and "raw" afterwords)
> for every commit,
Hmmm the outcome does not apply cleanly to 2.6.27.
> but ... Have you considered using Git for that?

and check out the whole tree using Git? I did consider but then I would not have all bells and whistles to generate a Debian kernel package.

Folkert van Heusden
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