[openib-general] userspace git trees

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> > > I guess those patches should be committed in 1.1 svn branch (and imported
> > > to git's 1.1).
> > 
> > This could be done, but why invest the time?
> 
> To do commits? SVN commit was done anyway, just in the different place
> and in form of the diffs.

But it was already done, is my point.

> > And once we do touch the branch, who will test that the thing you
> > pull from there even works?
> 
> How this is different? Who will test branch + ofed_fixes diffs?

No one until we do a bugfix release :).

> > I would say that if you really want to mirror the OFED branch,
> > and make it buildable to some extent, the way to do this
> > would be to have a single git tree with all of OFED - patches,
> > scripts and all.
> 
> I'm able to build OpenSM for OFED 1.1 from git tree just fine. And
> synced 1.1 branch in git let me some useful stuff - I can log, diff,
> rebase and cherry-pick fixes, etc.. - everything is in-tree (I said
> that I like branches :)).

I sure don't have a problem with that. But it would be better to avoid
touching 1.1 svn branch any more than absolutely necessary.

Do you only want this for opensm? opensm happens not to have any patches,
so it's easy.

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MST