Re: merging acl-dev and attr-dev [was: Re: [patch 0/4] attr: test/ improvements and integrate with make]

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:09:50AM -0800, Brandon Philips wrote:
> > There's a reason we split up xfs-cmds into more manageable
> > repositories.
> 
> What was the reason for splitting these two packages from each other?

That they are not related to each other.

> >From looking at the shortlogs it looks like a lot of the bug fixes are
> made against attr then copied over to acl: 
> 
>  http://ifup.org/git/?p=acl-attr-dev.git;a=shortlog

The only copies bugfixes are the nasty buildsystem which I think Andreas
wants to get rid of mid-term and libmisc.