Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 May 2005 12:08:40 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote: > >>Apologies if this has already been asked and I missed it, but do you >>expect to transition to exporting your working tree via git, now that >>licensing concerns are not part of the equation? >> > > > Nope. At any particular point in time the tree I have here has lots of > problems - failing to compile, crashing, etc. It takes me from four hours > to three days just to get a halfway-respectable release out the door. > > So there's no way in which I'd want to make the tree-of-the-minute > externally available - it would muck people around too much and would cause > me to get a ton of email about stuff which I'd probably already fixed. > > That, plus a traditional SCM is an inappropriate format for something like > -mm. This tree is a series of patches against Linus's tree - that's how it > is developed, tested and sent upstream. Patches get added, dropped, > reordered and merged at any time. It's hard to explain - you need to have > used patch-scripts or quilt for a while... > > Prematurely flattening all this into an SCM view is a fairly pointless > exercise - the only reason for doing it would be for people to be able to > download it. And they can do that by grabbing the single diff anyway. I > suppose someone might start offering git -mm trees sometime, as an > alternative to grabbing the diff file.
For all of the reasons you describe putting up your tree would be a waste of time, and putting up another tree is likely to only result in duplicated effort; the folks who want SCC can use whatever works for them and then send you patches.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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