Re: kvm repository unification

Dor Laor
2007-03-20T13:40:45Z

>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.
>
>If you like, I can give you a copy of the scripts that I use to maintain
>the quilt tree I maintain for the cell kernel.
>
> Arnd <><

So what you're suggesting is to use SVN as the primary source control tool.
All of the user space sources are kept in SVN. Kernel patches are kept in
SVN too; in quilt mail format. A set of scripts simplifies the job of getting the latest kernel git tree and applying the patches from the svn.

It sounds reasonable. Every developer has its git tree anyway, thus working
With quilt can improve day to day merges.

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