From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: kvm repository unification Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:03:26 +0200 Message-ID: <460005CE.4080406@qumranet.com> References: <45FFCFD7.5000107@qumranet.com> <200703201420.10139.arnd@arndb.de> <45FFE5AB.3030501@qumranet.com> <200703201537.35704.arnd@arndb.de> <45FFF312.2030804@qumranet.com> <4600049C.7090905@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4600049C.7090905-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Anthony Liguori wrote: > > I find using a patch queue useful though for submitting things > upstream. A good example is our QEMU changes. It's a real pain to > break apart the SVN history into individual patches. Why not just extract diffs with 'svn diff'? That's what I did/do. > > I tend to keep the patches in revision control too. > > In the paravirt_ops queue, they keep a file that contains the > changeset ID of whatever the patches are based off of. That tends to > help with respect to going backwards in history. Yeah. > > Mercurial is *much* friendlier than git. Linus' tree is available via > mercurial too. > > It should be pretty easy to maintain the KVM changes as a patch queue > against Linus' tree. > > We could have Makefile magic too to clone a kernel/qemu tree and apply > the patch queue that a top level "make" still did the right thing. Okay. I'll run it through the guys here and see what they think. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV