Re: RPM to GIT tree integration?

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Feb 6, 2009, 18:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0902061318310.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <b2cdc9f30902060905mb605a93oe8f9cc5795f3e008@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Alex Bennee wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> This is a wild shot in the dark but I thought I'd better ask in case
> some one has. Has anyone created a script/tool that can take a src RPM and
> apply it's patches (in sequence) to an existing GIT tree?

I haven't heard of one, but it would probably be easy to do with git-fast-import; you could take a look at contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl.

> In my case I just want a GIT tree for a vendor kernel. I could just
> prep an SRC RPM and commit the thing wholesale into GIT and start
> hacking but then I'd loose all the history benefits.

I think the biggest benefit would actually be identifying the upstream kernel that has the patches applied to it, which takes a certain amount of inspection and familiarity with Linus's kernel repository, but not really a tool.

	-Daniel
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