Subject: Re: how to find outstanding patches in non-linux-2.6 repositories?

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 22:04:39 +0100

On Sun, Jan 01, Brian Gerst wrote:

> Pull the powerpc tree into your local repo, then do something like:
> git-whatchanged master..powerpc
> or
> gitk master..powerpc

This worked for me:

mkdir /dev/shm/x
cd /dev/shm/x
rsync -Ha --delete ~/kernel/git/{powerpc,linux-2.6} .
cd linux-2.6/
cat .git/HEAD  > ../start
git-pull /dev/shm/x/powerpc
cat .git/HEAD  > ../end
git-format-patch `cat ../start` `cat ../end`
view ????-*

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