Re: kvm repository unification

Avi Kivity
2007-03-20T13:46:19Z

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Managing userspace in subversion and the kernel in git is proving to be
>> quite a pain. Branches have to be maintained in parallel, tagging is
>> awkward, and bisection is fairly impossible.
>>
>> What do people think about putting libkvm and qemu into the usr
>> directory of the kernel repo? It's slightly wierd but will make life
>> generally easier.
>>
>
> In my projects, I tend to never have a complete kernel tree under
> revision control, only patches in a form suitable for 'quilt mail'.
> This makes it a lot easier to see how the patches will look when they
> get merged upstream.
>
>

How does that work with multiple developers?

I find that git's cherry-pick and history editing features to be almost
as easy to use as quilt when it comes to managing patches; added to the
ease of distributed development I think it has a clear edge over quilt.

[I used to use quilt to cherry pick out of the subversion tree.
Nowadays I just cherry pick what I want to send upstream and put it on a
branch]

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