[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Git development moved to github

[Stefan Tatschner]

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 14:49 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > Merging manually is quite a bit of work, as you have to add a new
> > remote every time, fetch that, and pull from it. But it does keep a
> > cleaner git log history.
> I'd very much prefer to keep current look of the git tree, without
> gratuitous merge commits. For bigger changes, which are composed of
> a larger number of commits, merges are fine. But most patchsets to 
> systmed
> are either a single commit or two or three.

You could append ".patch" to any github commit [1] or pull request [2]
url and pipe them into "git am" with "curl" or something. Maybe that
would be a workaround for pull request consisting of only one or two
patches.

Stefan

[1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/2fd51106ee0d685ca1512a01
e6680142382586a7.patch
[2]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41.patch