# RPM to GIT tree integration? 3 messages from 2009-02-06 to 2009-02-07. Participants: Alex Bennee, Daniel Barkalow, James Davidson. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17620 ## Alex Bennee, 2009-02-06 17:05 Subject: RPM to GIT tree integration? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/b2cdc9f30902060905mb605a93oe8f9cc5795f3e008%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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? 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. -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ CV: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/cv.php ``` ## Daniel Barkalow, 2009-02-06 18:29 Subject: Re: RPM to GIT tree integration? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LNX.1.00.0902061318310.19665%40iabervon.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Alex Bennee wrote: > 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 *This .sig left intentionally blank* ``` ## James Davidson, 2009-02-07 05:57 Subject: Re: RPM to GIT tree integration? Message-ID: <20090207055747.GA5788@greycastle.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090207055747.GA5788%40greycastle.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 05:05:49PM +0000, Alex Bennee wrote: > 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? This may be what you are looking for: http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2008-07.html#rpm2git > 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. There is also a "How to use rpm2git" screencast: http://blip.tv/file/1155469 -- James Davidson (o_ james@greycastle.net //\ http://moria.greycastle.net/ V_/_ ```