Hi all, Kumar, I think you should check the --depth option of git clone if you're only interested in sending patches. --depth <depth> Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in the recent history of a large project with a long history, and would want to send in fixes as patches. Regards. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Kumar Gaurav > <kumargauravgupta3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> >> I have fixed several bugs in a program in staging and now want to send it to >> >> you before sending to maintainers. But currently i don't have git clone of >> >> current kernel. I had downloaded full tarball of 3.11-rc1 version. >> >> >> So please tell me if there's a way to formate a mail and create a path for >> the >> >> fix that i did. So that you can review my code. >> >> >> Curently i'm cloning kernel using git but it seems like it'll take forever >> as >> >> i dnt have very fast Internet connection speed and it seems to download >> around >> >> 1200MB of data from last 2hr i've completed with just 5%. So let me know if >> >> there's way w/o git. > You can create a git repository from the source code you've > downloaded. See the steps: > > $ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.2.tar.bz2 > $ tar xvjf linux-3.10.2.tar.bz2 > $ cd linux-3.10.2/ > $ git init > $ git add * > $ git commit -m 'initial commit' > > It is important to do the git commands 'before' doing any change to > the source code. After creating the git repository, all git commands > should work. > >> >> >> Regards >> >> Kumar Gaurav >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" >> in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > -- > Peter > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Nicolas Palix Tel: +33 4 76 51 46 27 http://membres-liglab.imag.fr/palix/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
