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14 years ago

Branch renaming in the linux-2.6 git repo on sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw

Hi all

The naming of the branches in our linux kernel git repository

(git://sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw/git/linux-2.6.git) caused some confusion -

especially along newbies - in the past.

Walter Goossens suggested to rename our main development branch

(unstable-nios2mmu) to something more convenient in [1].

[1] http://sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw/pipermail/nios2-dev/2011-september/005444.html

I'm going to rename the unstable-nios2mmu branch to 'nios2' on sopc and

my mirror at gitorious.org/linux-nios2/linux-nios2 if nobody has

any objections.

I'll also announce this in the forum. Additionally did a short writeup

of the way we handle development for nios2 linux now and a short

description of what every branch is about. I added this information to

the Altera Wiki at [2]. Please enhance/expand if you see fit.

[2] http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/linux_sources

Cheers

Tobias

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    14 years ago

    Hi Tobias,

    Being new to uCLinux (but not Linux in general) I have to say this renaming will help me a lot. I was getting quite confused by the various names :confused:. Could you kindly post a summary of the git commands that you would suggest in order to setup for the correct branch of uClinux-dist?

    Many thanks

    Vern
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    14 years ago

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    Hi Tobias,

    Being new to uCLinux (but not Linux in general) I have to say this renaming will help me a lot. I was getting quite confused by the various names :confused:. Could you kindly post a summary of the git commands that you would suggest in order to setup for the correct branch of uClinux-dist?

    Many thanks

    Vern

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    # git checkout -b nios2 origin/nios2 may work.