[openib-general] userspace git trees

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu Dec 14 10:40:15 PST 2006


> > > Any reason why it is not committed?
> > 
> > This was dicussed before OFED 1.1 and seems to have worked well so far.
> > 
> > We tried to keep our modifications to upstream as separate as possible -
> > this made transition to upstream in OFED 1.2 very easy as it was trivial
> > to check what was applied and what wasn't.
> 
> I cannot understand how not committing changes helps.

OFED is tracking trunk and using quilt to manage changes against trunk.
That's why they are in form of patches.
Now that everything is in git, we can look at using stgit for this,
I'm not sure how well would publishing stgit-managed tree work.

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MST




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