[libvirt] need help/clarification about git and patches.

2012-09-06 Thread Gene Czarcinski
Using git is more than a little different way of doing business for me. My usual way to create and apply a patch is to rebuild a src.rpm. This way I have a lot less changes of screwing something up because of ignorance. It it a little while but I finally cloned a copy of libvirt.git. I

Re: [libvirt] need help/clarification about git and patches.

2012-09-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/06/2012 09:59 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: Using git is more than a little different way of doing business for me. My usual way to create and apply a patch is to rebuild a src.rpm. This way I have a lot less changes of screwing something up because of ignorance. It it a little while

Re: [libvirt] need help/clarification about git and patches.

2012-09-06 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 11:59:10AM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: Using git is more than a little different way of doing business for me. My usual way to create and apply a patch is to rebuild a src.rpm. This way I have a lot less changes of screwing something up because of ignorance. It

Re: [libvirt] need help/clarification about git and patches.

2012-09-06 Thread Laine Stump
On 09/06/2012 11:59 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: Using git is more than a little different way of doing business for me. My usual way to create and apply a patch is to rebuild a src.rpm. This way I have a lot less changes of screwing something up because of ignorance. My experience is the

Re: [libvirt] need help/clarification about git and patches.

2012-09-06 Thread Laine Stump
On 09/06/2012 12:53 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: FYI in case you don't already know, you can also run libvirt builds directly from the source tree, rather than needing to run 'make intsall' or install an updated RPM every time. my usual way of working is to just stop the libvirtd process

Re: [libvirt] need help/clarification about git and patches.

2012-09-06 Thread Gene Czarcinski
Rather than cluttering up the mailing list, I am going to combine the helpful replies into a single response. I am going to edit this to reduce clutter. On 09/06/2012 01:26 PM, Laine Stump wrote: On 09/06/2012 11:59 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: Using git is more than a little different way of