Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Moving to git for v4l-dvb

[Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxxx>]

On 18:24 Wed 13 Feb 2008, Michael Krufky wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008 3:20 PM, Brandon Philips <bphilips@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 10:24 Tue 05 Feb 2008, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > Maybe we've took the wrong direction when we've decided to select
> > > mercurial. It were better and easier to use, on that time, but the -git
> > > improvements happened too fast.
> >
> > We should consider a move to a full-tree git.  Particularly, it would be
> > nice to be have v4l-dvb merging/building against other subsystems in the
> > linux-next tree:
> >
> >   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/512
> >
> > Also, it would save the silly pain of things like this meye.h thing and
> > pulling in fixes from the rest of the community that patches against git
> > trees.
> 
> Additionally, the moment we move development from hg to git, we are
> bound to the development kernel -- we will no longer be able to work
> against any stable kernel series, and we will lose all of our testers.

Good point.  Testers seem pretty happy with our current system.

I will look into auto-generating a full git tree from the hg v4l-dvb
repo.  That way we can participate in linux-next while still using
mercurial for development.

Cheers,

	Brandon

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