[Gta04-owner] 3.2-rc6-gta04 - another week, another rc.

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:14:52AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  git://neil.brown.name/gta04 merge
> 
> is now based on 3.2-rc6.

Thank you so much for your work :)

Let me ask something related to your git repository...

First of all a git clone is quite slow due to the kernel history being a
few gigabytes big and the server not being very fast. I dont really want
to stress your server with downloading gigabytes of data just to run
`make uImage` as I would just need the plain directory tree.

I was told svn has a functionality that offers what I want called `svn
export` git is lacking this but I found out about this beauty:

git archive --format=tar --prefix=PROJECT_NAME/ --remote=USER at SERVER:PROJECT_NAME.git master | tar -xf -

which should just get the plain file/directory structure just as I
wanted but

git archive --format=tar --remote=git://neil.brown.name/gta04 --prefix=gta04-kernel-neil master | tar -xf -

exits with:

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I do not know the reason but maybe you would like to have this
functionality working to reduce stress on your server? Hence just
mentioning it...

Secondly, I already have a full clone of your repository here but when
you advertise a new release of yours I have trouble incorporating these
changes into my local repository. Just doing `git pull` as I'm used to
would result into problems like:

Your branch and 'origin/merge' have diverged, and have 47 and 238
different commit(s) each, respectively.

To people knowing more git than me: how would I update my copy of neil's
repository properly step by step?

> Merry Christmas and/or Seasons Greetings and/or Happy New Year (though
> I'll probably have another release before the (western) New Year)

likewise!

cheers, josch