Hi guys, I've updated my branch at github to reflect changes in code as suggested by Julien and also rectify the goof ups I made with my initial submission. Julien, I would appreciate if you could verify if all is well now. Thank you once again Peter for your help :) Bye for now <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jeetu Golani <<a href="mailto:jeetu.golani@gmail.com">jeetu.golani@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thank you so much Peter....truly appreciate it :)....will make necessary changes to the code and follow your steps and put it up again :)...thanks <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Thursday 07 May 2009, you wrote: > (taking this off-list, since it's about git, not XCB) > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Jeetu Golani wrote: > > Peter : > >> I sense you've never used git before. > > > > Absolutely :)....sorry for the mess but at least I now know what not to > > do ;)....any help on doing this would be appreciated....I'm quite new to > > it. > > > > Julien > > > >>Well your tree does not have the full history of our libxcb, and is only > >>a set of file. So this is kinda useless, it is just like throwing a > >>tarball at our head. > > > > After cloning your devel tree I explicitly deleted the .git and > > .gitignore folders before uploading onto github...thinking it would lead > > to some sorta conflict.....I think that's what took off all the orignal > > history?? > > Yes. > > After cloning the upstream git, simply "git remote add myrepo > <github-ssh-url>". Then, you can set up your mirror with "git push > myrepo master". Since you're overwriting your failed attempt, you may > need to use --force the first time. After you've confirmed that this > works, you can apply your patches with "git commit --interactive" (or > similar. See "git help commit" for details) and publish them with > another "git push myrepo master". > > No need to "git init; git add .". That's just for starting up a brand > new project, not for working with an already existing project. > > Peter Harris </div></div></blockquote></div>