On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:52:38 +0100 Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:55:11PM +0100, Kristoffer Ericson wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Google is your friend. If you're looking for irc channels you can always > > try #git at irc.freenode.net > > Git howto/tutorial/... doesn't belong in the kernel mailinglist. > > Well, I don't agree with you. His question is about how to use GIT to > develop his driver. > 1) linux-kernel is a development ML. > 2) he needs help from people how already encountered such beginner's > issues and who might git very good advices. Agreed, my main concern was turning list into a "git-support" list and since I used the tutorials myself to get started, I felt they are quite satisfactory. However as you pointed out, needing help to develope his driver is a kernel matter. Point taken. :) > > It should not turn into an endless thread led by people who want to > redefine GIT's roadmap, but experience sharing helps a lot with GIT. > > Tilman, there was a howto by Jeff Garzik I believe. It helped me > a lot when I didn't understand a damn command, even if it was in > the very old ages (version 0.5 or something like this). The tutorials > on the GIT site are quite good too. You must read them entirely and > proceed with the examples as you read them. Believe me, it helps you > understand a lot of things, specially about the split in 3 parts > (objects, cache, and working dir). > > I really think that if your patches do not apply, it's because you > have lost some changes due to a wrong initial use possibly caused > by a mis-understanding of the tool. It happened to me too, but in > this case you can almost certainly find your old changes in older > commits. > > I really hope that soon someone will come up with a big 400-pages > book called "GIT" with a lot of good advices. It would be awesome. I second that :) > > Anyway, don't get demotivated about the tool or the workflow. If > you find it inconvenient to use, you're doing something wrong and > you don't know it. > > Regards, > Willy > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/