Monday, April 11, 2011

Develop against linux-next

First thing is to download the git tree for linux-next

$git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git

To follow changes to the linux-tree tree you need to first do a remote update (this will get all the changes from the remote linux-next branch to the local origin/master tracking branch) and then reset the HEAD pointer of current checked out branch to the HEAD of linux-next remote tracking branch (i.e origin/master).

$git remote update
$git reset --hard origin/master

This will make your current branch (master) *exactly* like the remote linux-next tree. You cannot do pull or merge from the remote tracking branch.

Links :
http://lwn.net/Articles/289245/
http://linux.f-seidel.de/linux-next/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Linux-next.Announcement
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1363433?page=last

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