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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:35:37 -0500
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Brandon Philips wrote:
> > 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.

We do have a full git tree. I don't understand what you're meaning. This tree
is generated by script (although I prefer to generate it manually, it shouldn't
be hard to automate it).
> 
> I like that *much* better -- good idea!
> 
> -Mike




Cheers,
Mauro

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