Re: [Qemu-devel] [announce] git patch database

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 10/16/09 18:44, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've setup some scripts which extract the patches from the list, sorts
>> them, tries to apply them to master and tries to build them. Results
>> can be checked here:
>>
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/pdb.git?a=heads
>>
>> Each patch (series) is committed to a new branch. In case something
>> fails the logs are committed, just check out the most recent commit of
>> a failed branch to figure what went wrong.
>
> Basically, a qemu-next type tree. I think this is a really great idea
> and I've been considering suggesting it.
>
> Are you automatically merging branches into a single tree or do you just
> keep each set of patches in their own branch?

Each patch/patchset is in their own branch.  The script also tries to 
merge all patch branches of a day together ($day/merged branch) and 
build it.  Works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't ...

cheers,
   Gerd