Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2
From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 11:24:53 EST
Andrew Morton wrote:
James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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