[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] drop mthca from svn?

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Tue Aug 29 06:25:35 PDT 2006



On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Roland Dreier wrote:

>     Fabian> Mellanox is currently tracking the MTHCA code base for
>     Fabian> Windows, and moving it out of SVN could make that harder,
>     Fabian> even impossible if it were to lose the BSD license.
> 
> There's no thought of changing the license.  I'm sure that would be a
> discussion at a much higher temperature.
> 
> With that said, why would maintaining mthca exclusively in git make it
> harder to track?  If anything I would think it would make it slightly
> easier, since "git log rev1..rev2 drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca" and
> "git diff rev1..rev2 drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca" are a lot faster
> than the svn equivalents.

OpenFabrics can provide git repositories. 

If OpenFabrics.org had git repositories, why would we remove the code 
from the OpenFabrics.org?




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