[PATCH] A few build.sh features

Brian Rogers brian at xyzw.org
Tue Feb 24 16:29:42 PST 2009


Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
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>> Dan Nicholson wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
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>>>> Brian Rogers wrote:
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>>>>> Here are a few patches that do things I found useful.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Specify -p to run 'git pull' on each component before building it.
>>>>>           
>>>> NAK.  You really want 'git fetch ; git rebase origin/<current branch>'.
>>>>  git-pull really is the wrong thing to do here!  I have a separate
>>>> script that does this for everything in the tree.  The function that
>>>> does the fetch / rebase is:
>>>>         
>>> I don't know what version of git this showed up in, but you can just
>>> run "git pull --rebase" so it runs rebase instead of merge. So, you
>>> could probably just use that.
>>>       
>> That works just like "git fetch ; git rebase origin/<current branch>"?
>> I learn something new every day...
>>     
>
> I'd like to push Brian's patches so they don't bitrot. If I "s/git
> pull/& --rebase/", is that good? Brian, do you have a problem with
> that?
>   

I'm fine with that. In fact, I have such a patch ready that's already 
been rebased to compensate for the other patch going in first.

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