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Ryan Anderson 365a00a3f2 [PATCH] Add some simple howtos, culled from the mailing list.
I think these are useful, and I think putting them in a new "howto"
directory might help some users until we get to the point of splitting
up the tutorial to be easier to read.

Given the authorship, I think it's safe to put these in the repository.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
2005-08-15 03:00:21 -07:00

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > Git actually has a _lot_ of nifty tools. I didn't realize that people
> > didn't know about such basic stuff as "git-tar-tree" and "git-ls-files".
>
> Maybe its because things are moving so fast :) Or maybe I just wasn't
> paying attention on that day. (I even read the git changes via RSS,
> so I should have no excuse).
Well, git-tar-tree has been there since late April - it's actually one of
those really early commands. I'm pretty sure the RSS feed came later ;)
I use it all the time in doing releases, it's a lot faster than creating a
tar tree by reading the filesystem (even if you don't have to check things
out). A hidden pearl.
This is my crappy "release-script":
[torvalds@g5 ~]$ cat bin/release-script
#!/bin/sh
stable="$1"
last="$2"
new="$3"
echo "# git-tag-script v$new"
echo "git-tar-tree v$new linux-$new | gzip -9 > ../linux-$new.tar.gz"
echo "git-diff-tree -p v$stable v$new | gzip -9 > ../patch-$new.gz"
echo "git-rev-list --pretty v$new ^v$last > ../ChangeLog-$new"
echo "git-rev-list --pretty=short v$new ^v$last | git-shortlog > ../ShortLog"
echo "git-diff-tree -p v$last v$new | git-apply --stat > ../diffstat-$new"
and when I want to do a new kernel release I literally first tag it, and
then do
release-script 2.6.12 2.6.13-rc6 2.6.13-rc7
and check that things look sane, and then just cut-and-paste the commands.
Yeah, it's stupid.
Linus