On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:05:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:42:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:24:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > > Tools absolutely matter. And it will take time for us to build up that > > > > kind of helper infrastructure. So being newbie might be part of it, but > > > > it's the smaller part, I say. Rough interfaces is a big issue. > > > > > > Speaking of tools, you had a "dotest" program to apply patches in email > > > form to a bk tree. And from what I can gather, you've changed that to > > > handle git archives, right? > > > > Yup. > > > > It's a git archive at > > > > kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/git-tools.git > > > > and it seems to work. It's what I've used for all the kernel patches > > (except for the merge), and it's what I use for the git stuff that shows > > up as authored by others. > > Hm, have you pushed all of the recent changes public? I get the > following when trying to apply a patch: > $ ../git-tools/dotest < ~/linux/patches/usb/usb-visor-tapwave_zodiac.patch > mailsplit <mbox> <directory>
Doh, you want it as a command line argument now. Stupid me... Anyway, I try it this way and get: $ dotest ~/linux/patches/usb/usb-visor-tapwave_zodiac.patch Applying USB: visor Tapwave Zodiac support patch fatal: preparing to update file 'drivers/usb/serial/visor.c' not uptodate in cache What did I forget to do? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
