New XFS git tree on oss.sgi.com

Lachlan McIlroy lachlan at sgi.com
Tue Nov 25 19:03:59 CST 2008


Russell Cattelan wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:22:21PM +1100, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
>>  
>>> There's a few branches there already:
>>>
>>> 'master'      This will contain all the latest xfs changes not yet 
>>> pushed
>>>                to mainline.
>>> 'mainline'    This is vanilla mainline and will updated regularly.
>>> 'for-linus'   Our staging branch for pull requests
>>> 'xfs-dev'     This branch will contain KDB and other supporting code for
>>>                development and should be identical to the old CVS tree.
>>>
>>> Feel free to start using it and let us know if you have any issues.
>>>     
>>
>> Any chance to have these as separate git trees instead of branches?
>>
>> In either case, do you expect patches against the xfs-dev or the master
>> tree?  It would also be useful if the trees and which one to be used
>> could be documented on oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs or xfs.org.
>>
>>   
> Specifically this page please.
> http://xfs.org/index.php/Getting_the_latest_source_code
Sure.  I didn't even know that page existed.

> 
> Maybe add a quick tutorial on git branches and how to create tracking 
> branches for this tree.
Can we just point people at an existing git tutorial?  Or are you wanting
something specific to our processes?

> 
> Also can we have something other than "unnamed repository" in the 
> description file?
Okay, how do we change that?

> 
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