Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-19 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 01:09:42AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: Essentially, with BK, at 7am localtime each morning, I'd: - update my baseline linux 2.6 tree - for each working tree which may be pulled from - if the baseline is a superset - update working tree from baseline

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:20 +0100, Russell King wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:13:59PM -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: BTW, there appears to be errors in the history committed thus far. I'm not sure where this came from though. Some of them could

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:24:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Tools absolutely matter. And it will take time for us to build up that kind of helper infrastructure. So being newbie might be part of it, but it's the smaller part, I say. Rough interfaces is a big issue. Speaking of tools,

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: Ok, I just tried pulling your tree into the tree you pulled from, and got this: No, that can't work. The pesky tools are helpful, but they really don't do merges worth cr*p right now, excuse my french. The _real_ way to pull is to do the (horribly

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:04:57 -0700 Greg KH wrote: | On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:24:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: | | Tools absolutely matter. And it will take time for us to build up that | kind of helper infrastructure. So being newbie might be part of it, but | it's the smaller part,

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:24:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Tools absolutely matter. And it will take time for us to build up that kind of helper infrastructure. So being newbie might be part of it, but it's the smaller part, I say. Rough

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: No, that can't work. The pesky tools are helpful [...] I'm afraid that until Pasky's tools script this properly, [... ] If Pesky wants to take the above script, test it, [...] Ok, one out of three isn't too bad, is it? Pesky/Pasky, so close yet so

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:05:19PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: No, that can't work. The pesky tools are helpful [...] I'm afraid that until Pasky's tools script this properly, [... ]

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:23:32AM +0100, Russell King wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:24:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: I pulled it tonight into a pristine tree (which of course worked.) Goodie. Note the pristine. Now comes the real

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: Since this happened, I've been working out what state my tree is in, and I restored it back to a state where I had one dangling commit head, which was _my_ head. For the future, if your tree gets messed up to the point where you say screw it and

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:42:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:24:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Tools absolutely matter. And it will take time for us to build up that kind of helper infrastructure. So being

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:05:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:42:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:24:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Tools absolutely matter. And it will take time for us

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Russell King
Ok, since the last one was soo successful, and I'm up for more punishment, here's another attempt. The diffstat is rather interesting in this one, claiming no changes. It should look like this: arch/arm/lib/bitops.h | 33 + 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+)

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:53:57PM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... Maybe Petr can improve the error handling, and incorporate it (or at least some of it) into git-pasky This does not need to touch git pull at all now; all the relevant logic

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:48:52AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:53:57PM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... Maybe Petr can improve the error handling, and incorporate it (or at least some of it) into git-pasky This

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: Hm, have you pushed all of the recent changes public? Oops. Obviously not. Will fix. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:59:52AM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... In the case I highlighted, we don't want to end up having to require user intervention. This is a common case here, and was one which was entirely scripted with BK. Well,

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: Anyway, I try it this way and get: You should update to the newest version anyway.. $ dotest ~/linux/patches/usb/usb-visor-tapwave_zodiac.patch Applying USB: visor Tapwave Zodiac support patch fatal: preparing to update file

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: What is actually a little annoying is having to cd ,,merge and then back, though. I don't know, but the current pull-merge script does not bother with the temporary merge directory neither, even though Linus wanted it. Linus, do you still do? ;-)

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-18 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:16:52AM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... However, it seems that git diff can't handle new files appearing yet. Fixed. :-) -- Petr Pasky Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 04:01:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: So I re-created the dang thing (hey, it takes just a few minutes), and pushed it out, and there's now an archive on kernel.org in my public personal directory called linux-2.6.git. I'll continue the tradition of naming git-archive

Re: Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:24:48PM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... However, I've made a start to generate the necessary emails. How about this format? I'm not keen on the tree, parent, author and committer objects appearing in this -

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 04:01:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: So I re-created the dang thing (hey, it takes just a few minutes), and pushed it out, and there's now an archive on kernel.org in my public personal directory called linux-2.6.git.

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: BTW, there appears to be errors in the history committed thus far. I'm not sure where this came from though. Some of them could be UTF8 vs ASCII issues, but there's a number which seem to have extra random crap in them (^M) and lots of blank

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:13:59PM CEST, I got a letter where David A. Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: BTW, there appears to be errors in the history committed thus far. I'm not sure where this came from though. Some of them could

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread David A. Wheeler
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: One thing which definitely needs to be considered is - what character encoding are the comments to be stored as? ... I replied: I would _heartily_ recommend moving towards UTF-8 as the internal charset for all comments. Petr said: Not that the plumbing

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:36:09AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 04:01:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: So I re-created the dang thing (hey, it takes just a few minutes), and pushed it out, and there's now an archive on

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: This will (and does) do exactly what I want. I'll also read into the above a request that you want it in forward date order. 8) No, I actually don't _think_ I care. In many ways I'm more used to reverse date order, because that's usually how you

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread Jochen Roemling
Linus Torvalds wrote: Ie we have two phases to the merge: first get the objects, with something like repo=kernel.org:/pub/kernel/people/torvalds/linux-2.6.git rsync --ignore-existing -acv $(repo)/ .git/ Could you place a tarball there for people like me who are no real kernel hackers and

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

2005-04-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: I pulled it tonight into a pristine tree (which of course worked.) Goodie. In doing so, I noticed that I'd messed up one of the commits - there's a missing new file. Grr. I'll put that down to being a newbie git. Actually, you should put that