Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-24 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Friday, 24 September 2021 19:47:24 CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I may > not be doing a lot of rebasing, since I'm creating patches for already > released versions rather than keeping up to date with the head of the > master branch. It works the same way there: take the current branch which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Marco. On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:56:39 +0200, Marco Rebhan wrote: > On Friday, 24 September 2021 10:49:53 CEST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > This raises the question of which kernel to work with: vanilla source > > or Gentoo? > Gentoo's patches are kept minimal so it shouldn't really matter

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Ramon. On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 22:56:34 +0200, Ramon Fischer wrote: > If GitHub is preferred, there is also an official GitHub repository of > the Linux Kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux Thanks, but here GitHub is most emphatically _not_ preferred. ;-) I've managed to clone a

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Marco. On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 21:27:26 +0200, Marco Rebhan wrote: > On Thursday, 23 September 2021 20:23:57 CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Where would I find a suitable kernel git repository to clone? An > > "official" repository, whatever that means? Ideally, I want one with > > just

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-24 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Friday, 24 September 2021 10:49:53 CEST Peter Humphrey wrote: > This raises the question of which kernel to work with: vanilla source > or Gentoo? Gentoo's patches are kept minimal so it shouldn't really matter (and I don't think they'd touch this part of the code anyway). Personally I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 23 September 2021 21:56:34 BST Ramon Fischer wrote: > If GitHub is preferred, there is also an official GitHub repository of > the Linux Kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux This raises the question of which kernel to work with: vanilla source or Gentoo? Sorry to be difficult.

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-23 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Thursday, 23 September 2021 20:23:57 CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Where would I find a suitable kernel git repository to clone? An > "official" repository, whatever that means? Ideally, I want one with > just the various kernel releases, not one containing gigabytes of > intermediate

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-23 Thread Ramon Fischer
If GitHub is preferred, there is also an official GitHub repository of the Linux Kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux -Ramon On 23/09/2021 21:27, Marco Rebhan wrote: On Thursday, 23 September 2021 20:23:57 CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: Where would I find a suitable kernel git repository to

[gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. Over the last few months I've posted several versions of my kernel patch which re-enables soft scrollback. I thought at the time I could just keep a few files informally in my home directory. But I'm already getting confused about what is where, what applies to which kernel