Re: how to find outstanding patches in non-linux-2.6 repositories?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 1, 2006, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601012228470.32311@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060101210429.GA22033@suse.de>

Hi,

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Olaf Hering wrote:

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>  On Sun, Jan 01, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
> > Pull the powerpc tree into your local repo, then do something like:
> > git-whatchanged master..powerpc
> > or
> > gitk master..powerpc
> 
> This worked for me:
> 
> mkdir /dev/shm/x
> cd /dev/shm/x
> rsync -Ha --delete ~/kernel/git/{powerpc,linux-2.6} .
> cd linux-2.6/
> cat .git/HEAD  > ../start
> git-pull /dev/shm/x/powerpc
> cat .git/HEAD  > ../end
> git-format-patch `cat ../start` `cat ../end`
> view ????-*

Preferrable is the following:

cd /existing/clone/of/ppc-linux # OP said he had this already
git fetch \
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
  master:refs/heads/linus
git-whatchanged linus..HEAD

Hth, Dscho