Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

[Ramon Fischer]

If GitHub is preferred, there is also an official GitHub repository of 
the Linux Kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux

-Ramon

On 23/09/2021 21:27, Marco Rebhan wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 September 2021 20:23:57 CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Where would I find a suitable kernel git repository to clone?  An
>> "official" repository, whatever that means?  Ideally, I want one with
>> just the various kernel releases, not one containing gigabytes of
>> intermediate versions.  Where would I even start searching to find
>> this out?
> Hey Alan,
>
> The official repository I think is
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/.
> What I would do is apply your patch on top of that, and then to update
> it, rebase the patch onto the new upstream commit you want to update to.
> This leads to your patches always being at the tip of the commit history
> and not somewhere buried between commits from upstream.
>
> However, this rewrites git history so you'd have to force push the
> branch to whatever remote you're tracking it in, so keep that in mind.
>
> You could do this though and additionally have another branch where you
> track the patch files themselves that are rebased onto a certain kernel
> commit (you can export them with "git format-patch upstream/master" if
> upstream/master is whatever branch the patch is currently rebased on).
> That of course you don't have to then force push.
>
> I hope this helps :P
>
> -Marco

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