Readme for using git with linux-omap, version 20080305

1. Install git

You can view recent mainline Linux changes at:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=summary

And you can view recent omap changes at:

http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=summary

or at:

http://source.mvista.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-omap-2.6.git;a=log

You can download git from:
http://git.or.cz/

To build and install git:
$ tar zxf ...
$ cd git
$ make prefix=/usr all doc
$ su
# make prefix=/usr install install-doc

Replace /usr with the prefix to where you want to install it.

2. Clone linux-omap git tree

First cd into some directory where you want to keep
your git trees. Then clone linux-omap git tree:

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git

or

$ git clone git://source.mvista.com/git/linux-omap-2.6.git

or if you're behind a firewall:

$ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git

or

$ git clone http://source.mvista.com/gittrees/linux-omap-2.6.git

You may need to export http_proxy environment variable for proxy.

3. Update your local tree

Change to linux-omap-2.6 directory, and then update the tree:

$ cd linux-omap-2.6
$ git pull

-
You should update your local linux-omap git tree once a day,
or when needed.

4. Create your local development branch

$ git branch my_branch
$ git checkout my_branch

5. Setup your name and email on git

$ git config --global user.name "My Name"
$ git config --global user.email "myname@domain.com"

6. Commit changes locally

$ git status
$ git update-index arch/arm/plat-omap/myfile.c
$ git commit -s

Before commit,

$ git diff HEAD

will show you what has changed.

6. Sending patches upstream

You can either send patches to the mailing list as usual,
or just post a link to your git tree where to pull from.

After commit, patches are created by

$ git format-patch -o <output_dir> abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01