New XFS git tree on oss.sgi.com

Lachlan McIlroy lachlan at sgi.com
Tue Nov 25 22:32:08 CST 2008


Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We've got a new xfs git tree on oss.sgi.com at:
>>
>> git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
>>
>> This tree is an automatic mirror of our internal tree so will always
>> be up to date.
>>
>> It supercedes the old xfs-2.6 tree which has a few problems with it's
>> merge history.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> First off, cool.  Glad to see this progressing.
> 
> TAKE messages currently have Russell-magic added to the body to link to
> a cvs commit for that change.  (however, it always takes up to 24h to
> sync...)
> 
> Will cvs still be around & updated?  If not, those messages should be
> removed (or changed to point to git commits if possible (probably not
> possible).

The ptools tree will still be updated (as changes go into the xfs-dev
branch) so the cvs tree will still be updated too.  We'll eventually
retire the cvs tree since everything that's in it is also available
from git now.



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