Re: devicetree repository separation/migration

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:59:17PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 15:11 +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Ians dts repository is a good start, but it contains a complete kernel
> > history and this is not very suitable as a submodule for other
> > projects. 
> 
> It only contains the full history for the files which it contains, not a
> complete kernel history. This is deliberate so that "git annotate" etc
> still works to tell you where a particular line came from.

I have cloned git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/device-tree-rebasing.git.
.git is 843MB in size and after a 'git checkout v3.13' I see a vanilla v3.13
checked out. I may have done something wrong, but I don't see what it
could be.

> 
> The are a lot of merge NULL-commits which aren't strictly needed (they
> have no content and only a single parent) but I didn't manage to get git
> rewrite-branch to omit them. They are mostly harmless I think.
> 
> I'm not sure how any of that makes it unsuitable for use as a submodule
> though, the history contained in a git tree seems pretty orthogonal to
> that to me.

My concerns are only about the size of the repository. Of cause if
you're willing to wait long enough that problem is orthogonal. But
anyway, what I cloned from your repository is likely not what it should
look like.

Sascha

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