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Hello, Gentoo. |
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Over the last few months I've posted several versions of my kernel patch |
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which re-enables soft scrollback. I thought at the time I could just |
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keep a few files informally in my home directory. But I'm already |
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getting confused about what is where, what applies to which kernel |
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versions and so on. |
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Clearly I need to put the patch into a version control system. I would |
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appreciate some advice on this. |
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I think I need to get a clone of the kernel's git repository, and |
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maintain the patch in it as a branch or several branches. Or would it be |
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feasible just to maintain the patch in a VCS? My feeling is that I |
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really need the full repository. |
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Where would I find a suitable kernel git repository to clone? An |
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"official" repository, whatever that means? Ideally, I want one with |
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just the various kernel releases, not one containing gigabytes of |
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intermediate versions. Where would I even start searching to find this |
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out? |
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Once I've got this far, I'll need to think about a versioning scheme for |
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the patch - there are irritating little differences in the console code |
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between versions of the kernel, as recently pointed out by Jorge Almeida, |
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so there would be irritating differences between versions of the patch. |
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Maybe I could put it onto the Gentoo wiki, but that's not in the near |
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future. |
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Thanks for the help! |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |