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On Nov 27 2007 23:33, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>
>It didn't work too well. The first result was one of maximal
>embarrassment: I produced a patch that didn't even compile when
>applied to the official tree. This shouldn't happen with git, right?
>Well, it did. So now I'm back to keeping a virgin kernel source tree
>alongside my development area in order to produce diffs. That can't
>be right?
>
No, it can't. Use stgit/quilt ;p

>Does somebody have a step by step tutorial for doing the standard
>"edit - test - modify - retest - submit - edit - resubmit" sequence
>with GIT? Is there a GIT newsgroup or mailinglist? Or should I just
>post my silly questions to LKML?
>
http://www.linuxworld.com/video/?bcpid=1138309735&bclid=1213841149&bctid=1221911905

James Bottomley's intro helps a lot.