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From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merging five months of Linux kernel history
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:50:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061030075002.GT26271@lug-owl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhcxm274i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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On Sun, 2006-10-29 12:34:53 -0800, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:
> > Due to a move to a new flat and other reasons, I wasn't able to
> > do daily merges from Linus's tree into our vax-linux tree.
> > My time situation has improved and I want to merge all the new
> > and shiny stuff, but it seems a straight "git pull" isn't the
> > best way to do that.
> >
> > What I'd actually love to do is to go through all commits since the
> > last merge and pull/accept/cherry-pick then one by one.  That way I'll
> > learn about new stuff. I'll specifically see generic changes that
> > imply arch-specific stuff, things I'll need to implement later on.
> >
> > Is there any sane way to cluse such a large gap?  I don't mind looking
> > through tenthousands of commits, as long as I get a chance to spot
> > "important" ones.
> 
> I think the best way is:
> 
> 	git pull
>         git log ORIG_HEAD..
> 
> The latter would give your ten thousands of commits to inspect.
> 
> If the pull results in a conflict, then
> 
> 	git pull
> 	git log --merge
> 
> 	... fix conflicts ...
> 	git commit
>         git log ORIG_HEAD..

That's the point--I don't really expect any conflicts, or only a very
little number of them. Basically, only the Makefiles and the Kconfig
files do have a chance to conflict.  It's no more than a new arch/
directory and some drivers.

The hard part will be to figure out all the needed changes in arch
code, like the IRQ handling rework etc :)

MfG, JBG

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-30  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-29 19:32 Merging five months of Linux kernel history Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-10-29 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-30  7:50   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw [this message]
2006-10-30  8:05     ` Junio C Hamano

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