Re: Help with git

2014-08-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Kristofer Hallin wrote: > This list is now discussing Nick's problems all the time and nothing > else. more specifically, the list is now teaching nick how to use git. so, on that note, i'm unsubscribing until this idiocy goes away. catch you on the flip side, as they say.

Re: Formula One Scheduler (was Re: Help with git)

2014-08-09 Thread Philipp Muhoray
Am 2014-08-09 02:17, schrieb valdis.kletni...@vt.edu: On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:28:45 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: On Aug 08 2014, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: There's a big difference between knowing how to change the spark plugs on a VW Beetle, and being able to walk into a Formula One pit and

Re: Formula One Scheduler (was Re: Help with git)

2014-08-09 Thread Lidza Louina
Nick, if you get accepted in a program like google summer of code, you will get a mentor (that's how I got started). I don't know the odds of that happening because you don't have a good reputation in the kernel. Look for a program like gsoc and apply. Another option is looking for someone in real

Re: Formula One Scheduler (was Re: Help with git)

2014-08-08 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Nick Krause wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Arlie Stephens wrote: >> On Aug 08 2014, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >>> There's a big difference between knowing how to change the spark plugs on >>> a VW Beetle, and being able to walk into a Formula One pit

Re: Formula One Scheduler (was Re: Help with git)

2014-08-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:28:45 -0700, Arlie Stephens said: > On Aug 08 2014, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > There's a big difference between knowing how to change the spark plugs on > > a VW Beetle, and being able to walk into a Formula One pit and make tuning > > suggestions that actually help t

Re: Formula One Scheduler (was Re: Help with git)

2014-08-08 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Aug 08 2014, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> There's a big difference between knowing how to change the spark plugs on >> a VW Beetle, and being able to walk into a Formula One pit and make tuning >> suggestions that actually help the pe

Formula One Scheduler (was Re: Help with git)

2014-08-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Aug 08 2014, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > There's a big difference between knowing how to change the spark plugs on > a VW Beetle, and being able to walk into a Formula One pit and make tuning > suggestions that actually help the performance. > > And yes, there's *that* big a gap between th

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Kristofer Hallin
Thinking about the same thing. This list is not interesting any more. On 8 Aug 2014 20:28, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Kristofer Hallin wrote: > > > This list is now discussing Nick's problems all the time and nothing > > else. > > more specifically, the list is now teaching

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:18:50 -0400, Nick Krause said: > Thanks for the notice , if there are any bugs that are simple for a > newbie on Linus's tree I would be glad to help out there. This isn't the kernel it was 8 or 10 years ago. There's not a lot of low-hanging fruit left - that's why the ker

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:37:25 -0400, Nick Krause said: > Would you mind asking Greg if he wants some help with staging clean up > as he is very upset with me after me > not listening and I own it to him to help help him out. No, what you owe him is to *SHUT THE HELL UP* and *DONT DO IT AGAIN* unti

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:53:50 -0400, Nick Krause said: > Then I am going to work on a few areas( still deciding where to specialize) > 1. Btrfs > 2. Scheduler > 3. F2FS > 4. Networking > 5. Drivers(mostly USB and Intel Graphics) Pick *one* thing. There's quite obviously a wide gap between your le

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> Thanks Numo, >> Would you mind asking Greg if he wants some help with staging clean up >> as he is very upset with me after me >> not listening and I own it to him to help help him out. >>

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Kristofer Hallin
But still, the best thing for Nick to do is to stay away from patches, bugs, staging and whatnot for a long time. Try to learn before even considering sending patches. You are on the same track as before, you are trying to figure out how to send patches even if a lot of people have told you not to

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Nick Krause wrote: > Thanks Numo, > Would you mind asking Greg if he wants some help with staging clean up > as he is very upset with me after me > not listening and I own it to him to help help him out. > Cheers Nick Greg KH monitors kernelnewbies. Keep participa

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:39 PM, wrote: > On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:04:15 -0400, Nick Krause said: > >> 1.git branch next > > No, this should be (3) or so. You really want to 'git clone' linus's tree and > then 'git remote add' the linux-next tree before you do this. > > If you're new to git, do you

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:04:15 -0400, Nick Krause said: > 1.git branch next No, this should be (3) or so. You really want to 'git clone' linus's tree and then 'git remote add' the linux-next tree before you do this. If you're new to git, do yourself a favor, follow the directions, and just build

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Nick Krause
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Nuno Martins wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Nick Krause wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:05 PM, wrote: >> >> On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:25:06 -0400, Nick Krause said: >> >> >> >>> 1. git

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Nuno Martins
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Nick Krause wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Nick Krause wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:05 PM, wrote: > >> On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:25:06 -0400, Nick Krause said: > >> > >>> 1. git clone linux-next > >> > >> Before you do the git add, you *really* w

Re: Help with git

2014-08-08 Thread Nick Krause
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Nick Krause wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:05 PM, wrote: >> On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:25:06 -0400, Nick Krause said: >> >>> 1. git clone linux-next >> >> Before you do the git add, you *really* want to create a branch for >> yourself to work on. >> >>> 2. git ad

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Nick Krause
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:05 PM, wrote: > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:25:06 -0400, Nick Krause said: > >> 1. git clone linux-next > > Before you do the git add, you *really* want to create a branch for > yourself to work on. > >> 2. git add file changed > > Because otherwise this will get dumped on on

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:25:06 -0400, Nick Krause said: > 1. git clone linux-next Before you do the git add, you *really* want to create a branch for yourself to work on. > 2. git add file changed Because otherwise this will get dumped on one of 200+ linux-next branches and cause acute indigestio

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:25:06 -0400, Nick Krause said: > 1. git clone linux-next Don't do that. You'll get something that you can't easily update. git clone linux *LINUS MAINLINE TREE* git remote add linux-next *add this as a remote* git fetch --all then use git remote up to update

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Nick Krause
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > On Aug 8, 2014 7:32 AM, "Nick Krause" wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:00 PM, wrote: >> > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:48:54 -0400, Nick Krause said: >> > >> >> sed: can't read /home/nick/linux-next/.git/rebase-apply/info: No such >> >

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
On Aug 8, 2014 7:32 AM, "Nick Krause" wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:00 PM, wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:48:54 -0400, Nick Krause said: > > > >> sed: can't read /home/nick/linux-next/.git/rebase-apply/info: No such > >> file or directory > > > > It usually helps if you give the actual

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Nick Krause
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:00 PM, wrote: > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:48:54 -0400, Nick Krause said: > >> sed: can't read /home/nick/linux-next/.git/rebase-apply/info: No such >> file or directory > > It usually helps if you give the actual command that you were trying to do. > > You didn't do this on

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:48:54 -0400, Nick Krause said: > sed: can't read /home/nick/linux-next/.git/rebase-apply/info: No such > file or directory It usually helps if you give the actual command that you were trying to do. You didn't do this on top of a linux-next tree that you did a 'git pull' t

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Nick Krause
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Nick Krause wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Kristofer Hallin > wrote: >> Seems like something is messed up. Try 'git rebase --abort' and see if >> that helps you. >> >> And don't try to get that patch merged upstream. >> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:48 AM,

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Nick Krause
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Kristofer Hallin wrote: > Seems like something is messed up. Try 'git rebase --abort' and see if > that helps you. > > And don't try to get that patch merged upstream. > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Nick Krause wrote: >> I can't seem to apply one of my created

Re: Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Kristofer Hallin
Seems like something is messed up. Try 'git rebase --abort' and see if that helps you. And don't try to get that patch merged upstream. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Nick Krause wrote: > I can't seem to apply one of my created patches after trying for the last > hour. > This is what is poppin

Help with git

2014-08-07 Thread Nick Krause
I can't seem to apply one of my created patches after trying for the last hour. This is what is popping up, if anybody can tell me is wrong that would be great. sed: can't read /home/nick/linux-next/.git/rebase-apply/info: No such file or directory sed: can't read /home/nick/linux-next/.git/rebase-