From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: basics... when reading docs doesn't help
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:50:51 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0703292225100.10351@poirot.grange> (raw)
Hi all
Since it's a basic question, I couldn't search archives - cannot come up
with good enough search keywords, but would be greatful for pointers.
I've been using CVS for a few years now, briefly tried a couple of other
CMS, but only briefly. Now trying to get to grisps with the git... And
just cannot understand how everybody does it.
The package I'm trying to handle with git is the Linux kernel.
1. Ok, I clone a repository from Linus or some else.
2. as my internet connection is not very fast, although I do have
flatrate, I prefer keeping a virgin cloned copy somewhere, where I only do
pulls from the original clone source, no edits.
3. then I do git clone <path to original cloned tree> <new tree>
4. create a new branch in <new tree>
5. go hack / compile in the <new tree>
6. then I decide to build practically the same kernel for another machine,
i.e., another configuration, maybe a couple of local changes...
Now, that's the first question: suppose I want to build kernels for about
4 machines. Do you __really__ clone the whole tree 4 times??? And then I
want try new versions for the same 4 machines without deleting the first
ones - 4 more clones??? Now, my copy of Linus' tree was ATM 1.5GiB big...
Slowly it's getting scary. Ok, if I build all that stuff on one
filesystem, I can use --local to use hard links, right? But is it REALLY
what everybody does?
The next thing is - I don't need all versions since 2.6.x in every copy I
use to compile / test / hack - in most cases I only compare to the basis
version, from which I branched. I might pull further updates into this
repository, merge, etc., but I don't need all PAST commits! Can I clone
starting from version x?
Ok, enough for starters:-)
Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
next reply other threads:[~2007-03-29 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-29 20:50 Guennadi Liakhovetski [this message]
2007-03-29 21:16 ` basics... when reading docs doesn't help J. Bruce Fields
2007-03-29 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-29 21:46 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-03-29 22:13 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-29 22:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-30 18:16 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-30 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-30 19:49 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-30 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-30 20:23 ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-30 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-30 21:11 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-30 2:43 ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-30 14:49 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-03-30 18:02 ` Andreas Herrmann
2007-03-30 18:24 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-03-29 22:27 ` Matthieu Moy
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