From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:29:03 GMT
Subject: Re: retrieving a diff from git
Message-ID: <81b0412b0810141029l7f37426axfc0646fa114fd3b5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081014172048.GW22427@vanheusden.com>

2008/10/14 Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>:
>> > 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.