[oe] Building minimal-image with kernel24

[Cliff Brake]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Joshua Lamorie <jpl at xiphos.ca> wrote:
> Gidday there,
>
> Sorry for this simple question, but I've been using subversion up to now, and I can't figure out how to use git to checkout/pull/clone the documentation.  I can see the results of ...
>
> git-ls-remote  --heads git://git.openembedded.net/openembedded.git refs/heads/org.openembedded.documentation
>
> Then, inside the openembedded repository that I cloned with
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> git clone git://git.openemebbeded.net/openembedded.git
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> I can see the other branches with
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> [jpl at megatron openembedded]$ git branch -r
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> However, as suggested in http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#examining-remote-branches, I do a checkout and I get the following.
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> [jpl at megatron openembedded]$ git checkout -b documentation origin/org.openembedded.documentation
> fatal: Entry 'packages/tinylogin/tinylogin_1.4.bb' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
>
> There is an error in that .bb file (I just added a patch to bugzilla) but shouldn't I be able to get this branch without dealing with the uncommited changes to that file?

You will need to commit your local changes to a temp branch first.

git checkout -b myfixes org.openembedded.dev
git add ...
git commit

Now that you have no local changes, you can check out the doc

Cliff

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