Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2012, 21:09:35 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Markus Grabner <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 22. November 2012, 21:05:31 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> If you'd like to help clean up the staging driver, I suggest starting
> >> with my line6-drop-sysfs-attrs branch (saves you from applying the
> >> patch emails yourself):
> >> https://github.com/stefanha/linux/tree/line6-drop-sysfs-attrs
> >
> > Do I have to clone the entire thing, or can I somehow "switch" an existing
> > kernel tree to your version, receiving only the changes between the
> > official kernel and yours?
>
> If you have an existing kernel git tree (linux.git or linux-next.git)
> then you have already downloaded most of the commits.
>
> Try this to avoid downloading the majority of the kernel commit history:
>
> $ cd linux # existing linux.git or linux-next.git tree
> $ git fetch git://github.com/stefanha/linux.git line6-drop-sysfs-attrs
> From git://github.com/stefanha/linux
> * branch line6-drop-sysfs-attrs -> FETCH_HEAD
> $ git checkout FETCH_HEAD
>
> Or if you expect to fetch from my repo again in the future, add a remote:
>
> $ cd linux # existing linux.git or linux-next.git tree
> $ git remote add stefanha git://github.com/stefanha/linux.git
> $ git fetch stefanha
> $ git checkout stefanha/line6-drop-sysfs-attrs
>
> (Now you can fetch 'stefanha' again in the future to get new branches
> from my repo.)
Thanks, now I received 15MB into an up-to-date linux.git tree (instead of ~1GB
for the full clone)!
Kind regards,
Markus
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