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From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	DTML <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>,
	Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>,
	Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Broken devicetree-rebasing history
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:01:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82ba9727b15e99f47488e3b2db4423a51a05bc35.camel@hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f6a2553-2145-c955-0ece-6c05fa060e50@marcan.st>

Thanks for the heads up, I'll (hopefully) take a look over the weekend.

FYI the state stuff can be found in
https://github.com/ijc/devicetree-conversion-state-v2

Ian.

On Fri, 2022-03-11 at 17:58 +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> I just noticed that at some point in the devicetree-rebasing.git
> history, a merge sneaked in that linked in the mainline git history.
> That unfortunately somewhat defeats the purpose of the repo, since
> you
> can't clone it without cloning all of Linux now.
> 
> The last good tag is v5.9-rc2-dts; v5.9-rc3-dts is the first one to
> include the bad merge. With -rc2 you get a 128MB clone; -rc3 ends up
> pulling in 1GB+ from the rest of Linux.
> 
> I thought of giving a shot at fixing it myself, but it seems the
> filter
> state/etc branches aren't available on the kernel.org repo, so AIUI
> re-bootstrapping the filtering process would require filtering the
> entire kernel history again, not just the changes since the bad
> merge...
> 
> For the Asahi Linux project (Linux on the new Apple machines) we're
> looking into having a dedicated DT repo where we can stage our
> bleeding
> edge changes before they are merged, since we want that to build our
> bootloader+DT packages without pulling in the entire kernel, and I
> was
> thinking of reusing the devicetree-rebasing infra and throwing up a
> cronjob that repeatedly rebases our latest changes from our kernel
> repo
> on top of whatever is the latest version in devicetree-
> rebasing.git...
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-11  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-11  8:58 Broken devicetree-rebasing history Hector Martin
2022-03-11  9:01 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2022-03-13 12:00   ` Ian Campbell
2022-03-14 20:38     ` Ian Campbell

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