On 21-05-08 14:37, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 21 May 2008 14:30:31 +0200, > Rene Herman wrote: >> $ git remote show sound-2.6 >> * remote sound-2.6 >> URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git >> Tracked remote branches >> master >> >> What's the status of that one now? Should I continue pulling that one or >> should I switch to the new alsa-kernel GIT repo? I want to pull it into >> a Linus clone tree... > > We are working on this right now. alsa.git is far currently behind my > tree. > > One problem we hit is about multiple committers and rebase. If you do > git-rebase, the commiter information is touched although the sign-off > isn't updated. git-rebase looks apparently designed for the > single-commiter model. It's "worse" than that; rebasing is designed for a _private_ development model. git-rebase is a very handy tool for people like myself (people without a downstream that is) and it basically enables the quilt model of a stack of patches on top of git but public trees that have people pulling from them should generally not rebase or everyone who _is_ pulling finds a different tree each time. Linus is vehement about this also. There have a few threads about it and the most recent was: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/17/190 I'm also not an experienced git user (not other than in my own leafnode developer mode, certainly) but I expect Linus might not terribly mind answering a few questions about the model -- ALSA is a significant subsystem and it switching to GIT might even make for a nice "this is how you do that as a subsystem" treatise... (ie, also added linux-kernel) Rene. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
