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Re: retrieving a diff from git

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Oct 14, 2008, 17:56 UTC
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Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> writes:
>> 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.

You can probably clone the Kernel repository, generate a huge diff with git diff, and apply it to your Debian tree with patch or git apply, but if the patch serie is not based on your tree, this won't help with conflicts.

-- 
Matthieu
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  3. Folkert van HeusdenOct 14, 2008
  4. Alex RiesenOct 14, 2008
  5. Matthieu MoyOct 14, 2008
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