Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] raisin: Some git-checkout improvements

2015-04-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 15:43 +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > > Also wouldn't it be possible to achieve the same goal with the GIT > > environmental variable? > > A brief scan of the git man page, combined with a brief survey of > Google, didn't turn up anything... It's not an env variable, but in ~/

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] raisin: Some git-checkout improvements

2015-04-22 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, George Dunlap wrote: > On 04/22/2015 03:54 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, George Dunlap wrote: > >> On 04/22/2015 03:11 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > >>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, George Dunlap wrote: > 1. Switch local variables to lower-case and decla

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] raisin: Some git-checkout improvements

2015-04-22 Thread George Dunlap
On 04/22/2015 03:54 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, George Dunlap wrote: >> On 04/22/2015 03:11 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, George Dunlap wrote: 1. Switch local variables to lower-case and declare them local. >>> >>> This is good. >>> >>> 2.

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] raisin: Some git-checkout improvements

2015-04-22 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, George Dunlap wrote: > On 04/22/2015 03:11 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, George Dunlap wrote: > >> 1. Switch local variables to lower-case and declare them local. > > > > This is good. > > > > > >> 2. Cloning git trees from remote repos is often a ve

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] raisin: Some git-checkout improvements

2015-04-22 Thread George Dunlap
On 04/22/2015 03:11 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, George Dunlap wrote: >> 1. Switch local variables to lower-case and declare them local. > > This is good. > > >> 2. Cloning git trees from remote repos is often a very long operation. >> Allow the user to specify a faster g

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] raisin: Some git-checkout improvements

2015-04-22 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, George Dunlap wrote: > 1. Switch local variables to lower-case and declare them local. This is good. > 2. Cloning git trees from remote repos is often a very long operation. > Allow the user to specify a faster git cache as a prefix. > > 3. At the moment you can either chec

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] raisin: Some git-checkout improvements

2015-04-21 Thread George Dunlap
1. Switch local variables to lower-case and declare them local. 2. Cloning git trees from remote repos is often a very long operation. Allow the user to specify a faster git cache as a prefix. 3. At the moment you can either check out a specific changeset or "master", but you can't check out a di