Kevin, On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 09:47:37AM -0500, Kevin Corry wrote: > Hi Stephane, > > On Mon June 18 2007 3:26 pm, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:50:33PM -0500, Kevin Corry wrote: > > > I was wondering what tools you are using to manage the Perfmon2 kernel > > > patches. There are CVS trees for libpfm and pfmon on the Perfmon2 > > > Sourceforge site, but not for the kernel patches. Do you use GIT, quilt, > > > or some other SCM tool? Based on the recent discussions on LKML, it looks > > > like there will be a few modifications coming up for Perfmon2, and I'm > > > eager to keep up with your latest changes. Some other people here at IBM > > > have also expressed an interest in having a GIT tree available for > > > Perfmon2, and it could also help with getting Perfmon2 accepted into > > > mainline. If you think that's a possibility, I'll be happy to help > > > however I can with getting it set up. > > > > I am not too familiar with git. I remember trying it for a while at least > > for the basic "consumer" commands. I think we should try this out. I would > > think we could get a git repository off of kernel.org, unless you have a > > better idea. I don't think we can get that from SourceForge. > > I haven't used GIT in a while either, but it seems like that's the way things > are going these days with kernel development, so we might as well take the > plunge. There's pointers to some of the basic docs at http://git.kernel.org/. > They have a nice tutorial online which covers the basic needs. So it does not look too difficult.
> kernel.org definitely seems like the most appropriate place to host the tree. > Information about getting an account on kernel.org is at > http://www.kernel.org/faq/#account. > > I'll be playing around with GIT and the Perfmon2 patches, and I'll let you > know if I come across any other good docs or tips. > I will send them an account request. I think I may have an account there already. -- -Stephane _______________________________________________ perfmon mailing list [email protected] http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/perfmon/
