On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:34:33PM +0200, ext Peter Barada wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 15:10 +0200, Kevin Hilman wrote: > > Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Paul Walmsley wrote: > > >> Hi Peter, > > >> > > >> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Peter Barada wrote: > > >> > > >>> 1) Does anyone have a URL of the format patches should be in that are > > >>> submitted to the linux-omap list? > > >>> > > >>> I've got some patches to add base support for the Logic OMAP 35x SOM and > > >>> Torpedo boards and I'd like to submit them in the right format for > > >>> inclusion and push into mainline. > > >> > > >> Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/CodingStyle are pretty > > >> good intros to this. > > >> > > > Also, Andrew Morton wrote a paper called "The Perfect Patch" > > > with a nice checklist of attributes. > > > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt > > > > > > > In addition to above suggestions, I highly recommend using git tools > > which automate many of these recommended steps. > > > > Usin 'git format-patch' and then 'git send-email' will get you a long > > ways. > > Kevin, > > Most of my work is done with LTIB/svn. Is there a good starter document > for git on how to have a local tree, local changes, and keep it up to > date with a remote tree? I've waded through some of git's > documentation, but its bit daunting bending my brain around git after > many years of SVN/CVS. git svn clone <repository url> <local repo name> will do it. Something like: git svn clone https://www.mydomain.com/svn/project/trunk project then you can even commit and push to a svn tree. after getting newest git tarball from [1], you can: $ make prefix=/usr all doc # make prefix=/usr install install-doc $ git help svn then you get git installed and help about svn support on git ;-) [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-1.6.4.1.tar.bz2 -- balbi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
