On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:52:58AM -0500, devendra.aaru wrote: > 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. Thank you for your reply. So If I did a refresh (git remote update) and then again checked out the tree with the latest tag(Note, that my previous branch was based off next-20121115 tag and even after 5 days I still see next-20121115 as the latest tag), I should be fine ? In case you've been monitoring linux-next tree, then can you please issue the following command and post what you get. $ git tag -l next-*|tail -n 1 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
