On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > This is a wild shot in the dark but I thought I'd better ask in case > some one has. Has anyone created a script/tool that can take a src RPM and > apply it's patches (in sequence) to an existing GIT tree? I haven't heard of one, but it would probably be easy to do with git-fast-import; you could take a look at contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl. > In my case I just want a GIT tree for a vendor kernel. I could just > prep an SRC RPM and commit the thing wholesale into GIT and start > hacking but then I'd loose all the history benefits. I think the biggest benefit would actually be identifying the upstream kernel that has the patches applied to it, which takes a certain amount of inspection and familiarity with Linus's kernel repository, but not really a tool. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
