Re: [Adeos-main] Re: [RFC] git workflow

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> A while ago I also played a bit with stgit and I was also not convinced, 
> that it's the right tool for our purpose. Nevertheless, I could reduce 
> the amount of git trees to manage (but I have to spend more time for a 
> better judgment).
> 
> Currently I'm porting IPIPE v1.6 over arch/powerpc rising a few code 
> management issues. I started porting with i386-1.6-01 extracting the 
> common part from that patch and adapting the arch specify code for 
> arch/powerpc. Now IPIPE is at v1.6-02 and I realized various 
> modifications, also of the noarch part including some serious bug fixes 
> (local_irq_disable_head in main.c did hang my system). But now, there is 
> no easy way to update the noarch part as we deal with combined noarch + 
> arch patches. From a new git based code management system, I would 
> appreciate a separation of noarch and arch. This would make it easier to 
> keep the archs in sync with Philippe's reference implementation (for 
> x86). Any comments?

IMHO, having the noarch and arch code separated is a nuisance. If there
was a centralized ipipe branch for 2.6.19, you would simply synchronize
your working copy with the server using the equivalent of "cvs/svn
update" and "cvs/svn commit". On the other hand, if the arch and noarch
code was separated, you would end up with twice as much updates and
commits.

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                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix