[openfabrics-ewg] git question

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Minich, Makia <minich at ornl.gov>:
> Subject: Re: git question
> 
> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:38 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> The commands do work, but Roland mentioned that the lines looked "more
> manual than it needs to be", so I was wondering if there actually is a
> more condensed set of commands that could be used.  The part that
> doesn't work for me (fundamentally) is that the ideas of pulling updates
> and only keeping the OFED source (rather than the complete kernel tree)
> are currently mutually exclusive under this git scheme.

Here's how you can update:
git fetch -u <ULR> refs/heads/ofed_1_1:refs/heads/ofed_1_1
and then repeat the git checkout command


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