[openfabrics-ewg] git question

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Minich, Makia <minich at ornl.gov>:
> Subject: Re: git question
> 
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 12:59 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >  >       git clone -s --bare git://www.mellanox.co.il/~git/infiniband .git
> >  >       git checkout ofed_1_1 `git-ls-tree -r --name-only ofed_1_1 \
> >  >                    include/rdma include/scsi/srp.h drivers/infiniband \
> >  >                    Documentation/infiniband ofed_scripts kernel_patches`
> >  >       echo 'ref: refs/heads/ofed_1_1' > .git/HEAD
> > 
> > This all looks more manual than it needs to be.  For example I would
> > have thought the second two commands could just be "git checkout ofed_1_1"
> > 
> > What git version are you running?
> > 
> >  - R.
> 
> I'm using git version 1.4.1.  All of those commands are based on what is
> on the OFED development wiki (in the "how to build ofed" document).  I
> figured that since I'm new to git, I'd just go ahead and follow the
> directions (as opposed to how I normally work).  All I want is the
> simplest and easiest way to get the IB source (not the entire 2.6.??
> kernel source).  This used to be relatively simple, but if I'm
> understanding correctly the only way to to this (and still be able to
> sync up with development changes through git-fetch or pull or whatever)
> is to clone the entire repo (i.e. all of the 2.6.?? kernel).  Is this
> correct?

Not sure what you mean here.
Don't the commands above work for you?
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MST