On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Kumar amit mehta <gmate.amit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > After some discussions that happened over kernel newbie mailing list in past, > I've managed to send some trivial patches to linux janitors and to relevant > maintainers. My patch base has been linux-next tree and I'm glad that some of > them got merged. Recently, for one of my patch, I got a reply from the > subsystem maintainer that my patch doesn't apply to his tree anymore and asked > me to do a refresh and try again. To make things clear, please find the steps > that I've followed to clone linux-next tree: > amit@ubuntu:~$ mkdir lkernel > > amit@ubuntu:~$ cd lkernel > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git init > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/amit/lkernel/.git/ > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git remote add linux-next > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch linux-next > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch --tags linux-next > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git tag -l next-* > next-20120816 > next-20120817 > next-20120820 > next-20120821 > ............ > ............ > next-20121114 > next-20121115 < -- --- (Most recent tag) > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git checkout next-20121115 -b Nov-15 > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git branch > * Nov-15 > > So *Nov-15* is my local branch and here I did some changes and did a commit > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git add <some file in staging directory> > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git commt -a > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git status > # On branch Nov-15 > nothing to commit (working directory clean) > > I forgot to send this patch for couple of days and maybe that was reason, my > patch couldn't apply(as mentioned by the subsystem maintainer). So still > being on my *Nov-15" branch, today(November 21, 2012), I invoked, following > commands to get the latest tags: > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git branch > * Nov-15 > > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git remote update > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch linux-next > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch --tags linux-next > > I was hoping to get new tags, but to my surprise there hasn't been any new > releases. This makes me think that something is wrong with my git setup. > > My git configuration: > amit@ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git config --list > user.name=<my name> > user.email=<my Email ID> > credential.helper=cache --timeout=3600 > sendemail.smtpserver=<gmail smtp server> > sendemail.smtpserverport=<port> > sendemail.smtpencryption=<encryption> > sendemail.smtpuser=<my email ID> > color.ui=true > color.status=auto > color.branch=auto > push.default=matching > branch.autosetuprebase=always > core.repositoryformatversion=0 > core.filemode=true > core.bare=false > core.logallrefupdates=true > remote.linux-next.url=git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git > remote.linux-next.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-next/* > branch.master.remote=linux-next > branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master > branch.master.rebase=true > > Please confirm if everything is okay with my git setup and I need not worry if I > do not see any new tags for sometime. > the case is where in which the maintainer will have a new tree for the patches and next didnt' updated to the latest maintainer tree, and there is people who worked on the same thing and thats why it didn't applied. > -Amit > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
