Re: [Line6linux-devel] line6 out of staging

[Stefan H. <ste...@gm...>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Markus Grabner <gr...@ic...> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2012, 21:05:31 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <ste...@gm...>
> wrote:
>> If you'd like to help clean up the staging driver, I suggest starting
>> with my line6-drop-sysfs-attrs branch (saves you from applying the
>> patch emails yourself):
>> https://github.com/stefanha/linux/tree/line6-drop-sysfs-attrs
> Do I have to clone the entire thing, or can I somehow "switch" an existing
> kernel tree to your version, receiving only the changes between the official
> kernel and yours?

If you have an existing kernel git tree (linux.git or linux-next.git)
then you have already downloaded most of the commits.

Try this to avoid downloading the majority of the kernel commit history:

$ cd linux # existing linux.git or linux-next.git tree
$ git fetch git://github.com/stefanha/linux.git line6-drop-sysfs-attrs
>From git://github.com/stefanha/linux
 * branch            line6-drop-sysfs-attrs -> FETCH_HEAD
$ git checkout FETCH_HEAD

Or if you expect to fetch from my repo again in the future, add a remote:

$ cd linux # existing linux.git or linux-next.git tree
$ git remote add stefanha git://github.com/stefanha/linux.git
$ git fetch stefanha
$ git checkout stefanha/line6-drop-sysfs-attrs

(Now you can fetch 'stefanha' again in the future to get new branches
from my repo.)

Stefan