[linux-cifs-client] Re: Non-bitkeeper way of getting cifs client ?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:46:24PM -0500, Steven French wrote:

> Although bk://cifs.bkbits.net/linux-2.5cifs cifs vfs still is almost up to
> date, the cifs vfs in the mainline kernel itself (ie 2.6.12-rc snapshots)
> is completely up to date and is the better location to download the fs/cifs
> directory from.  I will update samba svn for linux-cifs-client from time to
> time but it is more than a month old.

How do we get it more up to date more often ? Can we use an automated
process ?

> The official location of the cifs vfs tree is
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git and the
> beauty of git is that simple rsync of the .git directory works fine and
> download is quite fast (orders of magnitude faster than bk was for my
> laptop).

How do I use this tree ? How do I pull a buildable tree from this ?
I've never used git, and don't yet know how.

I'm getting CIFSFS bugs assigned to me in Novell, and need to know how
to work on this :-).

Jeremy.