On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:37:29 +0100 (CET), > Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > it seems that GIT matured somewhat. git-push has been implemneted. > > It was main reason to not use GIT when we made decision between HG and > > GIT. > > Hm, I thought it simply because you prefer python... Yes, it was one reason. But I must also admit, that GIT evolution seems to be faster than Marcurial. > > As we could have potential problems with branches in HG > > repository, I would like to consider a switch to GIT althought it means > > some changes in my scripts on ALSA server and my ksync tool. > > I just successfully tried (a bit modified hg-to-git.py script) and > > it seems to be working properly. > > Any objections? > > I don't mind to move to git, but IMHO, it's no urgent issue. > Let's get things out (e.g. concentrate on 2.6.25 merge) right now, and > then change the infrastructure in the right way. > > > BTW, one big annoying thing is that developers have no complete kernel > tree to access, and thus the patches that touch outside the ALSA > subdirectory cannot be merged easily. People often send patches > fixing together with OSS, etc, and I had to skip them. So, frankly, > I'd love to have an access to the whole kernel tree. But, OTOH, this > would make harder for other naive guys to give it a try because they > need to download the big linux kernel tree git. > > Maybe we can think reversely. Keep the kernel git tree as the primary > development tree and generate the subset as the alsa-kernel package > from the kernel tree automatically. In this way, you can avoid also > sign-off messes, too. > > In this scheme, you don't have to stick with stgit. The normal git > can handle patches well enough (via occasional rebase), and it's much > much faster than stgit. Of course, stgit is still good for small > number of patches, but it's not true for shared devel trees. As GIT matured, I can imagine to drop the alsa-kernel repository and manage only one ALSA GIT tree. I only hope, that GIT is the final SCM system for Linux :-) (At least for several years.) Ok, let's wait for 2.6.25 and then try to migrate. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
