Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 07:10:12 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing the new i915 driver Message-ID: <432173.29725.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <5615A42C.3080908@FreeBSD.org> <170455.91838.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20151009112417.3c510c2b@bsd64.grem.de> <561795FC.9010408@dumbbell.fr>
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> from my previous post, Michael Gmelin and Jean-S<E9>bastien P<E9>dron: > >> I don't want to mess up by git-cloning from the wrong directory. > >> Also, does this prevent future updates to src tree with svn? > > This is a separate experimental source tree. You could copy it over an > > existing source tree at the time of the fork (e.g. using tar, also > > including .git) and then svn update on top of this as well as git pull, > > but unless you have a good reason, that's not worth the effort/trouble > > and you just go with that branch until the changes get merged into HEAD. > Also, you don't need to buildworld from this i915 branch. Continue to > use your regular Subversion-or-whatever tree for that. So it looks like I keep the regular subversion src tree for buildworld and regular kernel. Then I can make another directory, like /usr/src2 or /i915test, git-clone from there, and build and install the test kernel from there, adjusting MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX if necessary. Tom
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