On Tue, 27 May 2014 00:16:52 -0700, Anand Moon said: > Please share your thoughts on this. I'd do it slightly differently, by keeping a master copy of Linus's tree, and a separate tree for the -stable additions (and other separate trees for linux-next or whatever else you feel like...) I keep my git trees under /usr/src - feel free to stick them elsewhere if that makes your workflow or disk management easier. Just remember to fix any pathnames.. :) 1) Get yourself a copy of Linus's tree, almost same as before: cd /usr/src git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git linux Note we called it 'linux', not 'linux-stable'. Remember the full path for this (I keep this one in /usr/src/linux, so that's what I'll use below) Note - this tree should be updated via this. The other trees are different cd /usr/src/linux git pull 2) Make a clone of that tree to use as 'stable': cd /usr/src git clone --local /usr/src/linux linux-stable You now have a copy in /usr/src/linux-stable. Also, *this* clone is local only, so you don't have to re-fetch Linus's tree. git remote add stable git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git git fetch stable git fetch --tags stable This tree you should *NOT* use 'git pull' - use 'git remote update' or 'git fetch v3.specifictag' 3) If you want to get a copy of the linux-next tree as well, it's easy, almost the same workflow: cd /usr/src/ git clode --local /usr/src/linux linux-next git remote add linux-next git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git git fetch linux-next (And again, update via 'git remote update' or 'git fetch'....) Now the interesting part is that you can do 'git checkout' on all 3 trees *and they're independent* - so you can (for instance) have 3 different 'git bisects' in different stages of completion. Or check out the Linus 3.10 kernel to see how code *used* to be, and the linux-stable 3.14.5 to see how it is *now*, and so on. Or you can check out the Linus v3.15-rc7 or the current linux-next, and see what patches *aren't* in the current linux-stable... or whatever else you feel like doing....
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