Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH 5/6][KVM VIRTIO] Add the network device code

[Avi K. <av...@qu...>]

Luca wrote:
> On 8/29/07, Cam Macdonell <ca...@cs...> wrote:
>   
>> Dor Laor wrote:
>>     
>>> The code can now be accessed by git:
>>> git://kvm.qumranet.com/home/dor/src/virtio/kvm (kernel) and
>>> git://kvm.qumranet.com/home/dor/src/virtio/kvm-userspace.
>>> branch name virt-final.
>>> --Dor
>>>       
>> I'm really new to git and don't quite grasp it's subtleties.  Do I have
>> to "git clone" your kvm kernel and user-space repos or is there some way
>> to use your branch as a branch off Avi's?  I tried finding an online
>> reference, but none seem to cover this kind of setup.
>>     
>
> If Dor's repository is based on the Avi's one (I think so) you can
> pull virt-final branch as a branch of you existing repository (see
> refspec parameter in git-pull). This is error prone though (after a
> while I tend to pull the wrong tree into the wrong branch ;-) )
> I prefer to clone the whole tree (disk space is cheap...), sharing GIT
> object where possible, e.g.
>
> git clone --reference kvm.avi
> git://kvm.qumranet.com/home/dor/src/virtio/kvm kvm.dor
>
> where kvm.avi is you existing kvm git repository.
>   


My preference pulling random branches and repos is 'git fetch' (or, for 
longer lived branches, 'git remote') which doesn't cause fake merges.

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