Things in git-land are moving at lightning speed, and usability has
improved a lot since my post a month ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11
1) installing git
git requires bootstrapping, since you must have git installed in order
to check out git.git (git repo), and linux-2.6.git (kernel repo). I
have put together a bootstrap tarball of today's git repository.
Download tarball from:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-20050622.tar.bz2
tarball build-deps: zlib, libcurl, libcrypto (openssl)
install tarball: unpack && make && sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
jgarzik helper scripts, not in official git distribution:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-new-branch
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-changes-script
After reading the rest of this document, come back and update your copy
of git to the latest:
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git.git
2) download a linux kernel tree for the very first time
$ mkdir -p linux-2.6/.git
$ cd linux-2.6
$ rsync -a --delete --verbose --stats --progress \
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
\ <- word-wrapped backslash; sigh
.git/
3) update local kernel tree to latest 2.6.x upstream ("fast-forward merge")
$ cd linux-2.6
$ git-pull-script \
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
4) check out files from the git repository into the working directory
$ git checkout -f
5) check in your own modifications (e.g. do some hacking, or apply a patch)
# go to repo
$ cd linux-2.6
# make some modifications
$ patch -sp1 < /tmp/my.patch
$ diffstat -p1 < /tmp/my.patch
# NOTE: add '--add' and/or '--remove' if files were added or removed
$ git-update-cache <list of all files changed>
# check in changes
$ git commit
6) List all changes in working dir, in diff format.
$ git-diff-cache -p HEAD
7) List all changesets (i.e. show each cset's description text) in local
branch of local tree, that are not present in remote tree.
$ cd my-kernel-tree-2.6
$ git-changes-script -L ../linux-2.6 | less
8) List all changesets:
$ git-whatchanged
9) apply all patches in a Berkeley mbox-format file
First, download and add to your PATH Linus's git tools:
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git-tools.git
$ cd my-kernel-tree-2.6
$ dotest /path/to/mbox # yes, Linus has no taste in naming scripts
10) don't forget to download tags from time to time.
git-pull-script only downloads sha1-indexed object data, and the
requested remote head. This misses updates to the .git/refs/tags/ and
.git/refs/heads directories. It is advisable to update your kernel .git
directories periodically with a full rsync command, to make sure you got
everything:
$ cd linux-2.6
$ rsync -a --delete --verbose --stats --progress \
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
\ <- word-wrapped backslash; sigh
.git/
11) list all branches, such as those found in my netdev-2.6 or
libata-dev trees.
Download
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git
or
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git
$ cd netdev-2.6
$ ls .git/refs/heads/
{ these are the current netdev-2.6 branches }
8139cp forcedeth master qeth smc91x we18
8139too-iomap for-linus natsemi r8169 smc91x-eeprom wifi
airo hdlc ns83820 register-netdev starfire
atmel ieee80211 orinoco remove-drivers tlan
chelsio iff-running orinoco-hch sis900 veth
dm9000 janitor ppp skge viro
12) make desired branch current in working directory
$ git checkout -f $branch
13) create a new branch, and make it current
$ cp .git/refs/heads/master .git/refs/heads/my-new-branch-name
$ git checkout -f my-new-branch-name
14) examine which branch is current
$ ls -l .git/HEAD
15) undo all local modifications (same as checkout):
$ git checkout -f
16) obtain a diff between current branch, and master branch
In most trees WITH BRANCHES, .git/refs/heads/master contains the current
'vanilla' upstream tree, for easy diffing and merging. (in trees
without branches, 'master' simply contains your latest changes)
$ git-diff-tree -p master HEAD
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