Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Jun 23, 2005, 08:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0506230900140.7099@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506221603120.11175@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 2) download a linux kernel tree for the very first time
> > 
> > $ mkdir -p linux-2.6/.git
> > $ cd linux-2.6
> > $ rsync -a --delete --verbose --stats --progress \
> > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ 
> > \          <- word-wrapped backslash; sigh
> >      .git/
> 
> Gaah. I should do a "git-clone-script" or something that does this, and 
> then you could just do
> 
> 	git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6
> 	
> Anybody?

What's wrong with Pasky's cogito scripts? There is a cg-pull as well as a cg-clone in there already. If nothing else you could just copy the relevant scripts and rename them to git-blah...

Best regards,

	Anton

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