On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: | | | On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: | > | > Useful explanation - thanks, Linus. | | Hey. You're welcome. Especially when you create good documentation for | this thing. | | Because: | | > Is this picture and description accurate: | | [ deleted, but I'll probably try to put it in an explanation file | somewhere ] | | Yes. Excellent. | | > Minor question: | > | > I must have an old version - I got 'git-0.03', but | > it doesn't have 'checkout-cache', and its 'read-tree' | > directly writes my working files. | | Yes. Crappy old tree, but it can still read my git.git directory, so you | can use it to update to my current source base.
Please go into a little more detail about how to do this step... that seems to be the most basic concept that I am missing. i.e., how to find the "latest/current" tree (version/commit) and check it out (read-tree, checkout-cache, etc.). Even if I use Pasky's tools, I'd like to understand this step. | However, from a usability angle, my source-base really has been | concentrating _entirely_ on just the plumbing, and if you actually want a | faucet or a toilet _conntected_ to the plumbing, you're better off with | Pasky's tree, methinks: | | > How do I get a current version? Well, one way I see, | > and that's to pick up Pasky's: | > | > http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/git/git-pasky-base.tar.bz2 | > | > Perhaps that's the best way? | | Indeed. He's got a number of shell scripts etc to automate the boring | parts. --- ~Randy - 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/
