From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760883AbYFILJ6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:09:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760150AbYFILJr (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:09:47 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:46876 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759175AbYFILJq (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:09:46 -0400 Subject: Re: update checkpatch.pl to version 0.19 From: David Woodhouse To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080609083301.GA6701@shadowen.org> References: <200806061922.m56JMJuq025990@hera.kernel.org> <20080606233037.GA8548@kroah.com> <20080606230239.c1a8c002.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080607173436.GA17603@kroah.com> <20080609083301.GA6701@shadowen.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:09:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1213009781.32207.615.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 (2.22.1-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 09:33 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > The issue I have is I have a comprehensive test suite which is kept in > lock step with checkpatch itself, all in my own tree. Now that is > just noise for mainline. What I want to be able to do is keep that in > lock step with developments in my tree, but not merge it upstream. So > far I've not found a workable solution with git for that. Why not make a tree which automatically tracks Linus' tree but only includes checkpatch.pl. Then pull from that into your own tree before you push your changes back. -- dwmw2