Hi Brent,

Sorry for the late reply.

On Wednesday 18 May 2011 22:36:25 Brent Weatherall wrote:
> I cloned the repository and added the uvcvideo.git per the instructions on
> 'http://git.linuxtv.org/pinchartl/uvcvideo.git'.  I am new to git and having
> a horrible time obtaining the revision I want. Using a qtgit I see a branch
> of uvcvideo.h which has the 'struct uvc_xu_control_query' defined. Even
> though the GUI client can show this to me, there does not seem to be a
> straightforward way to load this version of the repository so I can build it
> and use use the updated version of the uvcvideo.ko module on my development
> machine. If I am reading the GUI client information correctly, I want to get
> SHA1 - cdd0bc822e118946c1ce2b78ea7332dbd967ebcf, with short log entry
> 'uvcvideo: Rename UVC_CONTROL_* flags to UVC_CTRL_FLAG_*' and ID '52'.
> After reading the man pages for git it seems to me I should simply do
> either:
> 
> 1. git pull git://linuxtv.org/pinchartl/uvcvideo.git
> cdd0bc822e118946c1ce2b78ea7332dbd967ebcf
> 
> or
> 
> 2. git pull
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> cdd0bc822e118946c1ce2b78ea7332dbd967ebcf
> 
> However, these fail with 'fatal: Couldn't find remote ref
> cdd0bc822e118946c1ce2b78ea7332dbd967ebcf' and I am at a loss as to how I am
> supposed to retrieve the revision I would like to try out. Can anyone offer
> some insights into what I am missing? The revision I am interested in is a
> branch from the main line.  I also tried pulling in the main line where the
> branch occurred with the intent of patching in the changes, but I receive
> the same error message.

git checkout cdd0bc822e118946c1ce2b78ea7332dbd967ebcf

should do the job.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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