Thanks John, good advice and definitely on the to-do list.
Getting this book out is like passing a kidney stone :)
(Done both!)

Later;

Bill


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From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On 
Behalf Of John Syn
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 2:08 PM
To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Cross Compile Problem


On 1/13/15, 12:33 AM, "William Pretty Security" <bill.pre...@xplornet.com>
wrote:

>Thanks for all the help guys.
>I don't mind if I have to start over from scratch.
>Just so long as I end up with a Kernel with RAID support.
>
>I am cross-compiling on a quad core i7 laptop, so no worries about how 
>long it takes. Just so long as I end up with a working image I can copy 
>to a uSD card.
Yeah, but I think what Robert was showing you is that GIT is your friend and is 
extremely powerful. I highly recommend that you take the time to learn GIT 
because it will save you so much time. It also helps organize your development 
process.

Regards,
John
>
>Thanks again ...
>
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>On Behalf Of John Syn
>Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 1:14 AM
>To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com
>Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Cross Compile Problem
>
>
>On 1/12/15, 1:38 PM, "Robert Nelson" <robertcnel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:35 PM, William Pretty Security 
>><bill.pre...@xplornet.com> wrote:
>>> Pardon my ignorance Robert, but I'm not sure what you mean by 
>>>"rebase the branch" ?
>>
>>git commit -a -m 'xyz' -s
>>git pull --rebase
>I think this is a little more complicated. I¹m guessing William is on 
>the tmp branch, but since the he probably hasn¹t setup the tmp branch 
>to track the origin/<xyz> branch, he will get an error. If he did setup 
>the tmp branch to track origin/<xyz> branch, then he would retain all 
>his kernel changes after updating his repo.
>>
>>or just:
>>
>>git checkout master -f
>>git branch -D tmp
>>git pull
>>git checkout origin/<xyz> -b tmp
>In this case William will loose all his kernel changes.
>
>At least I think this is how it works.
>
>Regards,
>John
>>
>>Regards,
>>
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