Re: [ANNOUNCE] Fine grained branches

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Simon,

On Thursday 04 April 2013 16:07:00 Simon Horman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in an effort to streamline management of the renesas tree I am trying the
> use of more fine-grained branches.
> 
> For the past few release there have been the following branches:
> 
> * defconfig
> * boards
> * soc
> * pinmux
> 
> Some sundry branches for drivers. And merge branches that bring things
> together. Currently next is the only merge branch I am maintaining.
> 
> Going forwards I plan to make per-board defconfig and boards branches and
> per-soc pinmux and soc branches.

I wonder whether it might not be too soon for per-SoC pinmux branches. I will 
still need to perform cross-SoC changes to the PFC driver for v3.11 to 
implement DT support. Splitting the patches in per-SoC pinmux branches 
wouldn't be practical, as there would likely be many cross-dependencies. The 
situation should hopefully stabilize after v3.11.

> So instead of applying an sh73a0 patch to soc, I will apply it to soc-
> sh73a0.
> 
> I will, as before, merge all relevant branches into next.
> 
> I have also recently starting taging next branches, to provide a reference
> point for developers. Unlike next, which changes every time I do a merge of
> new changes, tags don't change (unless I make a mistake!). The current tag
> is renesas-next-20130303. I plan to make renesas-next-20130304 shortly.
> Please consider basing your work on the latest renesas-next tag. And please
> consider quoting the tag name your work is based on when posting it.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart