On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:59:17PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 15:11 +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > Ians dts repository is a good start, but it contains a complete kernel > > history and this is not very suitable as a submodule for other > > projects. > > It only contains the full history for the files which it contains, not a > complete kernel history. This is deliberate so that "git annotate" etc > still works to tell you where a particular line came from. I have cloned git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/device-tree-rebasing.git. .git is 843MB in size and after a 'git checkout v3.13' I see a vanilla v3.13 checked out. I may have done something wrong, but I don't see what it could be. > > The are a lot of merge NULL-commits which aren't strictly needed (they > have no content and only a single parent) but I didn't manage to get git > rewrite-branch to omit them. They are mostly harmless I think. > > I'm not sure how any of that makes it unsuitable for use as a submodule > though, the history contained in a git tree seems pretty orthogonal to > that to me. My concerns are only about the size of the repository. Of cause if you're willing to wait long enough that problem is orthogonal. But anyway, what I cloned from your repository is likely not what it should look like. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-spec" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
