RFC: migrating to git

[Thomas Schilling]

On 13 January 2011 08:54, Roman Leshchinskiy <rl at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> On 12 Jan 2011, at 23:31, "Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Excerpts from Roman Leshchinskiy's message of Wed Jan 12 18:20:25 -0500 2011:
>>> How would we get the current functionality of darcs-all pull? Is it even possible?
>>
>> Here is the rebase-y workflow.
>
> Thank you making things clearer!
>
>>>
>> # pull the latest patches for GHC, and sticks your patchset on top
>> git pull --rebase
>> # <resolve any conflicts that occured during rebase>
>> # register any new submodules (if any)
>> git submodule init
>> # make your submodules reflect the latest version GHC has
>> git submodule update --rebase
>
> This doesn't pull in all base patches, though, just the ones that GHC depends on, right? How would I get all base patches?

cd libraries/base
git pull [--rebase]