libertas patches in email...

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Sun Feb 25 08:29:40 EST 2007


On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 15:57 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> On Saturday 24 February 2007 13:57, Dan Williams wrote:
> > fyi, it's better to put the patch into the email body than just link
> > to the git commit, because then we can more easily review patches and
> > make comments inline.
> 
> Okay, I'll re-send them. I made some new patches along the way, now the 
> driver is actually split in two (and works still).
> 
> 
> Now that I learned about "git-format-patch" and "cop kmail KMailIface 
> dcopAddMessage" it should be fairly easy to get the patches into kmail 
> and then to you.
> 
> However, I'm still fighting and getting used to git, e.g. when it comes 
> to branches and merges. For example, libertas-2.6 changed while I was 
> working on libertas-cl now I was unsure what to do. The last time I 
> deleted the libertas-cl branch on infradead.org and created a new 
> one :-(

usually, you rebase and merge; which I believe means you get to pull
libertas-2.6 down into your tree and fix up the merge conflicts, then
commit the conflict fixes to your tree.  Then you're up-to-date.

Dan





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