On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Kumar amit mehta <gmate.amit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 no i meant use the maintainer's git in that cases, not the next _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
