Download Linus's latest git tree

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Tue May 27 10:28:34 EDT 2014


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:35:13AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2014 00:16:52 -0700, Anand Moon said:
> > Please share your thoughts on this.
> 
> I'd do it slightly differently, by keeping a master copy of Linus's
> tree, and a separate tree for the -stable additions (and other separate
> trees for linux-next or whatever else you feel like...)
> 
> I keep my git trees under /usr/src - feel free to stick them elsewhere if
> that makes your workflow or disk management easier. Just remember to fix
> any pathnames.. :)

So are you doing this as root?  Because you should never do kernel
development as root, just put kernel source trees in your home directory
somewhere, like under ~/linux/

thanks,

greg k-h



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