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?
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> 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-
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