On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 8:21 PM Sarah Langstrom <sarahklangstrom@gmail.com> wrote:

For developers that find themselves with multiple in progress patchsets against multiple trees, how do you organize them locally? I add each tree as a remote and use git-worktree for multiple streams of development.

I use worktrees as well. they all use the same repo, so its gotta save space. I tend to reuse them too, and rarely need make clean between swaps. [jimc@frodo f2]$ git worktree list /home/jimc/projects/lx/linux.git 457391b03803 [master] /home/jimc/projects/lx/wk-next 75eada68d460 [kmemleak-format-tweaks] /home/jimc/projects/lx/wk-ref 89b88285f7ba [diet-x1b] /home/jimc/projects/lx/wk-rpi b762dfa091f8 [maph] /home/jimc/projects/lx/wk-suren 8660484ed1cf [modules-next] /home/jimc/projects/lx/wk-test b61bb42d2cdc [dd-fix-1d] FWIW, I have ./builds/* folders, each with a .config file and a 2 line makefile: # Automatically generated by /home/jimc/projects/lx/wk-rpi/Makefile: don't edit include /home/jimc/projects/lx/wk-rpi/Makefile

I wish I had a little working area to go along with each tree/tracking branch where I could store patches and configs related to that tree without committing them, but still be able to back them up when I push the trees to my backup NAS. I am starting to lose track of which patchsets worked against which tree and which commit by sticking them all in one ~/patches dir.

have you seen git stash ? it will do at least some of what you want.

Another issue I have is that I put files to build a small initramfs inside of linux/usr and a Makefile of my own to build the initramfs and start up qemu. Again, I want to use git to store it with my branches on my NAS, but I don't want to check it in. Does anyone else have tips for dealing with adding personal scaffolding like this without having it get accidentally lost? Right now they are just untracked files that I sometimes delete by mistake.

I use virtme to do my testing. It exposes your host machine inside a qemu vm, so the env & tools in the vm are the same binaries that youre used to using. Ive had to do ZERO messing with the qemu details Id never even used qemu until virtme, and other than some fiddling with its many --options (some are pass thru to qemu) it just works. specifically, it does guest-tools setup, maybe its simple to reuse that.. virtme.guesttools 975097856 485798144 486818176 50% /run/virtme/guesttools virtme.initmount0 975097856 485798144 486818176 50% /root As to personal scaffolding, test scripts etc, I keep them in the parent directory of all the worktrees, and the vm's get it as the HOME dir via --cwd=../../.. [jimc@frodo f2]$ krun vm --show-command --show-boot-console --kdir . --mods=auto --kopt nokaslr --rwdir=/root=/home/jimc/projects/lx/boots-dump/v6.3-7-gb762dfa091f8 --cwd=../../.. --kopt dynamic_debug.verbose=3 --qemu-opts -m 2G --smp 3 then I can just source the shell tools I want [ 21.770154] virtme-init: udev is done virtme-init: console is ttyS0 bash-5.2# . test-funcs.rc :#>

Thanks, Sarah

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