From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760639AbXK0Xwz (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:52:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753686AbXK0Xwr (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:52:47 -0500 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:2488 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752648AbXK0Xwr (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:52:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:52:38 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Kristoffer Ericson Cc: Tilman Schmidt , LKML Subject: Re: git guidance Message-ID: <20071127235237.GF15227@1wt.eu> References: <474C9B31.8000408@imap.cc> <20071127235511.bd9557f0.Kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071127235511.bd9557f0.Kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:55:11PM +0100, Kristoffer Ericson wrote: > Greetings, > > Google is your friend. If you're looking for irc channels you can always try #git at irc.freenode.net > Git howto/tutorial/... doesn't belong in the kernel mailinglist. Well, I don't agree with you. His question is about how to use GIT to develop his driver. 1) linux-kernel is a development ML. 2) he needs help from people how already encountered such beginner's issues and who might git very good advices. It should not turn into an endless thread led by people who want to redefine GIT's roadmap, but experience sharing helps a lot with GIT. Tilman, there was a howto by Jeff Garzik I believe. It helped me a lot when I didn't understand a damn command, even if it was in the very old ages (version 0.5 or something like this). The tutorials on the GIT site are quite good too. You must read them entirely and proceed with the examples as you read them. Believe me, it helps you understand a lot of things, specially about the split in 3 parts (objects, cache, and working dir). I really think that if your patches do not apply, it's because you have lost some changes due to a wrong initial use possibly caused by a mis-understanding of the tool. It happened to me too, but in this case you can almost certainly find your old changes in older commits. I really hope that soon someone will come up with a big 400-pages book called "GIT" with a lot of good advices. It would be awesome. Anyway, don't get demotivated about the tool or the workflow. If you find it inconvenient to use, you're doing something wrong and you don't know it. Regards, Willy