Managing linux-next tree for submitting patches

[devendra.aaru]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Kumar amit mehta <gmate.amit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After some discussions that happened over kernel newbie mailing list in past,
> I've managed to send some trivial patches to linux janitors and to relevant
> maintainers. My patch base has been linux-next tree and I'm glad that some of
> them got merged. Recently, for one of my patch, I got a reply from the
> subsystem maintainer that my patch doesn't apply to his tree anymore and asked
> me to do a refresh and try again. To make things clear, please find the steps
> that I've followed to clone linux-next tree:
> amit at ubuntu:~$ mkdir lkernel
>
> amit at ubuntu:~$ cd lkernel
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/amit/lkernel/.git/
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git remote add linux-next
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch linux-next
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch --tags linux-next
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git tag -l next-*
> next-20120816
> next-20120817
> next-20120820
> next-20120821
> ............
> ............
> next-20121114
> next-20121115 < -- --- (Most recent tag)
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git checkout next-20121115 -b Nov-15
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git branch
> * Nov-15
>
> So *Nov-15* is my local branch and here I did some changes and did a commit
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git add <some file in staging directory>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git commt -a
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git status
> # On branch Nov-15
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>
> I forgot to send this patch for couple of days and maybe that was reason, my
> patch couldn't apply(as mentioned by the subsystem maintainer). So still
> being on my *Nov-15" branch, today(November 21, 2012), I invoked, following
> commands to get the latest tags:
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git branch
> * Nov-15
>
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git remote update
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch linux-next
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git fetch --tags linux-next
>
> I was hoping to get new tags, but to my surprise there hasn't been any new
> releases. This makes me think that something is wrong with my git setup.
>
> My git configuration:
> amit at ubuntu:~/lkernel$ git config --list
> user.name=<my name>
> user.email=<my Email ID>
> credential.helper=cache --timeout=3600
> sendemail.smtpserver=<gmail smtp server>
> sendemail.smtpserverport=<port>
> sendemail.smtpencryption=<encryption>
> sendemail.smtpuser=<my email ID>
> color.ui=true
> color.status=auto
> color.branch=auto
> push.default=matching
> branch.autosetuprebase=always
> core.repositoryformatversion=0
> core.filemode=true
> core.bare=false
> core.logallrefupdates=true
> remote.linux-next.url=git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
> remote.linux-next.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-next/*
> branch.master.remote=linux-next
> branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
> branch.master.rebase=true
>
> Please confirm if everything is okay with my git setup and I need not worry if I
> do not see any new tags for sometime.
>

the case is where in which the maintainer will have a new tree for the
patches and next didnt' updated to the latest maintainer tree, and
there is people who worked on the same thing  and thats why it didn't
applied.
> -Amit
>
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