[openib-general] [RFC] remove kernel drivers from svn

[James Lentini]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Bob Woodruff wrote:

> Roland wrote,
> > - Several groups are already using their own separate repositories
> >   anyway, so svn doesn't have all of the latest and greatest anyway.
> >   (For example both ehca and ipath are really maintained in private
> >   repositories)
> >- Pulling patches out of svn to merge with a git tree generates extra
> >   time-wasting busy-work, both for the submitter and for me.
> 
> > - svn kernel drivers dilute testing attention from the upstream
> >   kernel, which means that upstream is not as high-quality as possible.
> 
> >Getting rid of svn would encourage new features to be developed as
> >self-contained patch sets, which makes an eventual upstream merge much
> >easier.  And of course having git as our core repository would make
> >developing on a branch far far easier.
> 
> > - R.
> 
> I don't have a problem moving from SVN to something like git if it makes
> the kernel development and pushing upstream easier as long as the database
> is available in the open and not kept in some private repository, which is
> not the open source way. 
> 
> I would also like to see all components user and kernel use the same source
> control tool so that I don't have to install learn and maintain lots of 
> different tools.

I also find having the user and kernel code in the same repository 
useful.

> my 2 cents,
> 
> woody