# First dumb question to the list :)

3 messages from 2006-03-16 to 2006-03-18. Participants: Paolo Ciarrocchi, Alex Riesen, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3655

## Paolo Ciarrocchi, 2006-03-16 17:49

Subject: First dumb question to the list :)
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30603160949l655c4f9blb1e202eaf22fbfe@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4d8e3fd30603160949l655c4f9blb1e202eaf22fbfe%40mail.gmail.com

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Hi all,
I just installed git and cogito from Ubuntu Drapper,
performed a simple cg-clone git://URItoLinus2.6 linux2.6
and aftwer more or less one hour I had a clone of Linus 2.6 tree.
So far so good.

What I want to do is to simply keep my repository aligned with Linus
so I simply have to do:
cd linus2.6
cg-fetch

How can I confg git in order to, by default,  use git instead of rsync ?

Now my dumb question is... since I want to build that kernel do I have
to locally clone/copy it in order to don't modify any file on my local
tree?
If I don't do so, I guess git/cogito will not be happy when I run
cg-fetch, right?

Thanks!

--
Paolo

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## Alex Riesen, 2006-03-16 22:11

Subject: Re: First dumb question to the list :)
Message-ID: <20060316221104.GA5898@steel.home>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060316221104.GA5898%40steel.home
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30603160949l655c4f9blb1e202eaf22fbfe@mail.gmail.com>

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Paolo Ciarrocchi, Thu, Mar 16, 2006 18:49:16 +0100:
> What I want to do is to simply keep my repository aligned with Linus
> so I simply have to do:
> cd linus2.6
> cg-fetch

Or "git pull"

> How can I confg git in order to, by default,  use git instead of rsync ?

By editing .git/remotes/origin and replacing "rsync://rsync." with
"git://git." (I think the rest is identical, but you better check).

> Now my dumb question is... since I want to build that kernel do I have
> to locally clone/copy it in order to don't modify any file on my local
> tree?

No. As long you don't modify anything under .git you can always get to
any state of your kernel tree you ever had (assuming you _use_ git, of
course).

Or you can just revert your changes after you've played enough with
them: "git reset --hard".

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## Jeff King, 2006-03-18 04:25

Subject: Re: First dumb question to the list :)
Message-ID: <20060318042537.GA32348@coredump.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060318042537.GA32348%40coredump.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30603160949l655c4f9blb1e202eaf22fbfe@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:49:16PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

> performed a simple cg-clone git://URItoLinus2.6 linux2.6
> [...]
> What I want to do is to simply keep my repository aligned with Linus
> so I simply have to do:
> cd linus2.6
> cg-fetch
> [...]
> How can I confg git in order to, by default,  use git instead of rsync ?

It should use the git protocol by default; cg-clone will make an
'origin' branch (cogito doesn't support .git/remotes/ yet) pointing to
the original source. Future 'cg-fetch' invocations default to the origin
branch.

Try using 'cg-branch-ls' to see what's on your origin branch.

> Now my dumb question is... since I want to build that kernel do I have
> to locally clone/copy it in order to don't modify any file on my local
> tree?
> If I don't do so, I guess git/cogito will not be happy when I run
> cg-fetch, right?

cg-fetch just pulls Linus' changes to your 'origin' head. You will then
have to cg-merge the changes into your branch. You can do both at once
with cg-update. If there are conflits, then cogito will notify you.

-Peff

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