From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cliff Wickman Subject: Re: Official git repo for numactl (any other VCS would be fine as well) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:47:44 -0500 Message-ID: <20140723124744.GB23761@sgi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-numa-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Filipe Brandenburger Cc: linux-numa@vger.kernel.org Hi Filipe, (and Andi) On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:01:38PM -0700, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi Cliff, > > Any chance to set up an official git repository for the numactl source code? I'm not opposed to it, it's just not high on my list. We've only had 3 patches in the past year. > This was asked before but not sure it was set up... > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.numa/704 > > Looking at numactl-2.0.10-rc1.tar.gz, there are some minor issues with > the distribution, such as: > - an empty "numastat" and a x86_64 binary "test/move_pages" are > included in the tarball > - many source code files are marked executable I cleaned those up, thanks. > Furthermore, a central git repository would make it easy to distribute > a central .gitignore file which would make it easier to develop using > git. > > I also have some improvements to the Makefile by cleaning up temporary > files used for detecting features (such as "threadtest", "empty.c" and > "empty.o") and renaming second use of $(THREAD_SUPPORT) to > $(TREE_VECTORIZE_SUPPORT) since that's what that feature seems to be > detecting... > > I'd be happy to help set up a git repository, except that I don't > really have access to the code history, All the patches are in a tarball in the tarball: patches.tar.gz > so I guess the best I could do > is build it from the unpacked sources present in old_versions/ of the > download FTP site, which would be fairly coarse... If you have better > tracking of the history, do you think it would be worth exposing it? > > Thanks! > Filipe -Cliff -- Cliff Wickman SGI cpw@sgi.com (651) 683-3824 (651) 482-9347h