On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:51 AM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Larry Brigman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have the responsibility to maintain a kernel for a product we are >> building. >> I would like to use git to allow me to pull code in from kernel.org >> without having to >> search for patches. >> >> I have two issues that seem to be at odds of doing what I want. >> 1) I started with a tarball not a git clone. >> 2) I have to maintain a checked in version of source code in Clearcase >> >> As anyone has some experience in dealing with a situation like this? >> Recommendation other than chucking Clearcase? >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > > Is Clearcase absolutely necessary for your setup? The is a hard requirement. It has a history in the company and our build environment is there.
>I have never used it ( is > it linux/unix based at all? ) Yes, I have it running on RHEL5 servers. They (IBM) even provide the mvfs kernel module in source form as part of the install. >I think you could accomplish what you want > with setting up a git repo for patch downloads and then some scripting fu to > import the updates into your other version control software. Subversion > comes to mind since it would seem pretty trivial to script an http: or even > file system update of the new(er) patches you've downloaded using git. > > Drew- > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
