Re: Split kvm source tarballs

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Hi Avi,
>>
>> I spent some time today putting together an approximation of the KVM 
>> stable release based on QEMU 0.10.x.  In principle, it's not too bad 
>> at all because it's just a matter of creating a branch in 
>> kvm-userspace that's based a kvm commit sometime after the QEMU 
>> 0.10.x release but before the next qemu-cvs merge you did that 
>> happened post QEMU 0.10.x.  Basically, it was a merge of 72ee81f and 
>> ddecccc.
>>
>> The problem for me is pulling in the QEMU stable fixes.  You don't 
>> have a branch that tracks the QEMU stable tree and I can pull in the 
>> QEMU stable git tree without rewriting history since the directory 
>> layout is different.
>>
>> But if you created a qemu-svn-stable branch that followed the QEMU 
>> stable tree in kvm-userspace, like the qemu-cvs branch follows trunk, 
>> then it would be pretty easy to create and maintain a kvm_stable_0_10 
>> branch of whatever you'd like to call it in kvm-userspace.
>>
>> Any chance you could do this?  I suspect it's just a matter of 
>> creating the branch based off of the qemu-cvs tree at ddecccc and 
>> then doing a git-svn fetch.
>>
>
> I pushed this under the old naming convention, as kvm-userspace.git 
> maint/2.6.30.  I'll rename it once I convert the repo.
>
>
Sweet, thanks!

Regards,

Anthony Liguori