[openib-general] userspace git trees

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 01:05 Mon 11 Dec     , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Recently I found this OFA 'Userspace Git Trees' downloading howto:
> > > > 
> > > > https://openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Downloading+Code+From+the+OFA+git+Repositories
> > > > 
> > > > and thought that we could make it simpler for end-user to choose the
> > > > "right" git tree just by adding one more series of symbolic links under
> > > > /pub/scm. This links will point to the maintainer's "official" trees, and
> > > > we will have only one such link per project.
> > > > 
> > > > So typical downloading howto for end-users will looks like:
> > > > 
> > > >   git clone git://staging.openfabrics.org/dapl
> > > >   git clone git://staging.openfabrics.org/ibutils
> > > >   git clone git://staging.openfabrics.org/imgen
> > > >   ...
> > > > 
> > > > instead of
> > > > 
> > > >   git clone git://staging.openfabrics.org/~ardavis/dapl
> > > >   git clone git://staging.openfabrics.org/~eitan/ibutils
> > > >   git clone git://staging.openfabrics.org/~mst/imgen
> > > >   ...
> > > > 
> > > > as it is now.
> > > 
> > > NACK, please remove this. These soft links are messy, and
> > > the fact that one needs root just to add a tree shows just how the approach
> > > is broken.
> > 
> > No, it is not instead, but in addition to ~user/ links, so root is _not_
> > required to add tree.
> 
> right but suddenly root is needed to make it "official".
> Let's avoid the whole policy-setting-by-softlinks.
> "I have root" should not equal, or be required for "I say what's official".

What are you trying to avoid? That only sysadmin will decide which git
tree will be "official" for OFED and which will not?

> 
> > > If you have some temporary tree, just mention this in description,
> > 
> > And when it is not temporary tree?
> 
> Say what it is in the description.
> Put a link in wiki.
> 
> > > and gitweb will show this. And won't the problem basically go away
> > > if you move ~sashak temporary trees out of ~/scm?
> > 
> > For me it is unclear yet how long we may need this - 1.1 still be in
> > SVN yet, and 1.1 git branch is updated there.
> 
> So ~sashak/scm things track the 1.1 branch in git?

All active SVN branches.

> Move it to ~sashak/scm/ofed-1.1 then, and set the description accordingly?
> 
> > > It seems we don't
> > > have a lot of duplicates besides that.
> > 
> > But we will have - we are running git hosting only week or so and already
> > talking about pre-trunk trees for some projects. :)
> 
> These should be branches, not separate trees.

Why not?

Sasha