I use git quite a lot, for my plugin development and for kernel compiling. I have been creating packages of the latest version for Ubuntu for quite a while. Today I decided to make these packages available to the public by using the Launchpad PPA repository.
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Christmas is coming and people will start asking you what you want for Christmas. You write your list, hand it out or email it to your relatives and after a few days you want to add something, so you have to email everybody again.
Wouldn’t it be a lot easier if you could tell your friends and relatives to just go to your blog and you have a page with your Christmas wishes? And wouldn’t be easy if they just clicked on the present to buy it for you?
Well you can!
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A friend of mine runs a WordPress site and recently moved to a different provider. The transition went smoothly and the site ran fine for three weeks. One day he made a post like he normally does and the site become very slow. He deleted the post but with no result. His site was still extremely slow, I mean it took almost a minute to load the index page. Installation of a caching plugin, deactivating all plugins, selecting the default theme did not help at all.
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In a previous article I addressed how to compile a kernel for Ubuntu Intrepid using git and in a follow up article I explained how to compile a new release if you already compiled your own custom kernel using git. The upgrade article was written if the kernel upgrade was one where the only ABI number changed was the last one.
In this article I’ll explain how you can update your previously compiled custom kernel to a newer version, if you used git. This article won’t touch an upgrade of kernel 2.6.27 to 2.6.28.
Updates:
Jan 9, 2009: Added git add to the “commit your changes” section.
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