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

[James Lentini]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Roland Dreier wrote:

> What would people think of removing the kernel drivers from our svn
> tree?  I see several reasons to do this:
> 
>  - 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)

I'm surprised. I didn't know that this was the case. 

Why are they using private repositories? Will moving to your git tree 
change this?

>  - 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.