Re: xen compilation error

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>]

On Thursday 22 January 2009 13:21:31 Ian Jackson wrote:
> Christoph Egger writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] xen compilation error"):
> > This sort of problem can only happen with nested repositories.
> > (Makes also hard to make snapshots.)
> > Can we have ioemu back in the mercurial tree, please?
>
> I'm afraid it's not really practical to do the necessary
> upstream-tracking and multiple branches with hg, particularly given
> that almost everyone else in the qemu world is using git.

qemu uses subversion and so do I.

Handling patches with mercurial is easy with the pbranch extension:
http://arrenbrecht.ch/mercurial/pbranch/

> If you don't like the nested repositories, you can have side-by-side
> repositories by setting CONFIG_QEMU in .config (or wherever else you
> like to set things).
>
> Alternatively, we could provide a
>   make update
> at the top-level of xen-unstable.hg which updated qemu too ?

That's nice. Also a 'make snapshot' or 'make archive' would be handy to
quickly make a tarball.



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