Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261669AbVEBF1H (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 01:27:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261662AbVEBF1H (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 01:27:07 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:52916 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261669AbVEBF07 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 01:26:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 22:26:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: James Cloos Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 Message-Id: <20050501222630.2fed0bd7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050430164303.6538f47c.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1580 Lines: 31 James Cloos wrote: > > Apologies if this has already been asked and I missed it, but do you > expect to transition to exporting your working tree via git, now that > licensing concerns are not part of the equation? > Nope. At any particular point in time the tree I have here has lots of problems - failing to compile, crashing, etc. It takes me from four hours to three days just to get a halfway-respectable release out the door. So there's no way in which I'd want to make the tree-of-the-minute externally available - it would muck people around too much and would cause me to get a ton of email about stuff which I'd probably already fixed. That, plus a traditional SCM is an inappropriate format for something like -mm. This tree is a series of patches against Linus's tree - that's how it is developed, tested and sent upstream. Patches get added, dropped, reordered and merged at any time. It's hard to explain - you need to have used patch-scripts or quilt for a while... Prematurely flattening all this into an SCM view is a fairly pointless exercise - the only reason for doing it would be for people to be able to download it. And they can do that by grabbing the single diff anyway. I suppose someone might start offering git -mm trees sometime, as an alternative to grabbing the diff file. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/