[openib-general] idea for ofed 1 2 kernel file structure

[Steve Wise]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 06:20 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > I looked a current ofed 1.2 kernel tree and there is 1 thing I dislike:
>  > It is hard to see changes that are specific to OFED since we have whole
>  > kernel history mixed in.
> 
> I'm not sure how you have your branches set up, but if you have
> something like a "linus" branch that tracks the upstream kernel, it's
> easy to do stuff like "git log linus.." or "git diff linus.. drivers/infiniband"
> and see the differences that way.
> 
> Using git that way (which is what it's designed for, after all) seems
> better than some scripts to munge together two trees.
> 

So git "log linus.." would show commits in the current branch that are
not in the linus branch, correct?

That would work.  Two branches:  one with the main kernel git tree, and
based on that + the ofed-specific changes.