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| 23:24.04 | Wizzup | Enrico_Menotti: are you compiling on arm? |
| 23:24.19 | Wizzup | cross compilers? build tools installed? etc |
| 23:25.06 | Enrico_Menotti | The issue I get now seems to be related to git. I don't get what happens in a particular situation I'm dealing with. |
| 23:25.11 | Enrico_Menotti | Let me explain. |
| 23:26.14 | Enrico_Menotti | I am compiling on a PC (Intel based) running Debian. It's an old laptop, so memory is limited, speed is limited, Internet access also,... |
| 23:26.29 | Enrico_Menotti | So I cloned the .git repository on my Mac, which was easy. |
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| 23:27.05 | Enrico_Menotti | Then I checked out files to a different directory from the one where I cloned the repository, just to separate them from the archives. |
| 23:27.40 | Enrico_Menotti | This made me able to compress just the needed files (the ones for the branch I am considering) in order to transfer them quickly to the other computer. |
| 23:27.55 | Enrico_Menotti | Probably in the process of checking out I missed something. |
| 23:28.47 | Enrico_Menotti | In particular, I am following what is explained here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4479960/git-checkout-to-a-specific-folder. |
| 23:28.50 | Wizzup | This might not be the easiest/best task to start withl |
| 23:29.02 | Wizzup | I think the devuan img contains mainline, does it not? |
| 23:30.14 | Enrico_Menotti | The Devuan image seems to come from mainline kernel, yes. |
| 23:30.27 | Enrico_Menotti | But I have already been able to boot that one. Now I wanted to compile my own kernel. |
| 23:33.07 | Wizzup | Have you ever done that before? |
| 23:33.40 | Wizzup | If you're going to cross compile a kernel, which this seems like, it might not be the best first step. Sorry if I am making the wrong assumptions. |
| 23:33.54 | Enrico_Menotti | I have been able to compile and boot Android's kernel for the emulator. |
| 23:33.58 | Wizzup | I see |
| 23:34.04 | Wizzup | In my experience the painful part is forgetting certain modules - like the platform watchdog - not so much the kernel compile |
| 23:34.14 | Wizzup | that's really just cross compile setup, make bla_defconfig and go |
| 23:35.17 | Enrico_Menotti | For a moment, I'd like to understand what happened with git. I tried "git --work-tree=<myoutputdir> checkout <mybranch>". This checked out only part of the files. Why? |
| 23:36.58 | Enrico_Menotti | And on the answer I linked at (stackoverflow), the command is "git --work-tree=... checkout ... -- .". Why is the period at the end needed? |
| 23:37.35 | Wizzup | If you're trying to check out a tag, simply issuing 'git checkout <tagname>' should be enough in simple cases. |
| 23:38.01 | Wizzup | I am not sure why you're using --work-tree instead of just git from the dir, but that's fine I guess |
| 23:38.15 | Wizzup | Only the files that are tracked will be checked out. |
| 23:38.22 | Wizzup | time to sleep. |
| 23:39.34 | Enrico_Menotti | Ok, good night. I should go to sleep as well. |