Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The "Free" Kernel In Debian Squeeze

[Daniel Clark]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd like very much to have this implemented in time for 2.6.38 (late
> Mar/early Apr 2011, considering that 2.6.37 should be out by late
> Dec/early Jan), and I'd love to have this in a git repository rather
> than as deblobbing scripts, but a solution for the problem of creating a
> git repository that can track Linux upstream without carrying the
> non-Free bits that the Linux git repository carries has so far eluded
> me.  Any git experts willing to contribute expertise to this end?  Or
> perhaps users of other git-compatible DVCS that could help us get the
> behavior we need?  Say, if bzr could track Linux git repos while
> enabling us to filter out the non-Free bits from the history, we might
> solve our problem and promote a GNU DVCS at the same time.

Asked a friend who is a git expert; sorry if this is duplicative at
this point, but:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Stone <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: git expert question from GNU-linux-libre list
To: Daniel Clark <address@hidden>
Cc: Bernie Innocenti <address@hidden>


You need some way to mechanically identify non-free blobs that you
want to remove. Once you've got that, you can write a
"kill-nonfree-blobs" program. Then, you can use some adaptation of
git-filter-branch [1] like so:

 git filter-branch --tree-filter kill-nonfree-blobs ...

with a cronjob to keep your repository up to date.

Regards,

Michael

[1]: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-filter-branch.html

P.S. - @Bernie: Other ideas?

On 1/9/11, Daniel Clark <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thought one of you might have an idea on this...
>
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