Re: retrieving a diff from git
2008/10/14 Folkert van Heusden <folkert@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.
That's because the patches are not based on 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.
I afraid, that in this particular case you have no other choice, but ask Ingo.