Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Moving to git for v4l-dvb

[Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>]

Brandon Philips wrote:
> On 18:24 Wed 13 Feb 2008, Michael Krufky wrote:
>   
>> On Feb 13, 2008 3:20 PM, Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de> wrote:
>>     
>>> On 10:24 Tue 05 Feb 2008, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Maybe we've took the wrong direction when we've decided to select
>>>> mercurial. It were better and easier to use, on that time, but the -git
>>>> improvements happened too fast.
>>>>         
>>> We should consider a move to a full-tree git.  Particularly, it would be
>>> nice to be have v4l-dvb merging/building against other subsystems in the
>>> linux-next tree:
>>>
>>>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/512
>>>
>>> Also, it would save the silly pain of things like this meye.h thing and
>>> pulling in fixes from the rest of the community that patches against git
>>> trees.
>>>       
>> Additionally, the moment we move development from hg to git, we are
>> bound to the development kernel -- we will no longer be able to work
>> against any stable kernel series, and we will lose all of our testers.
>>     
>
> Good point.  Testers seem pretty happy with our current system.
>
> I will look into auto-generating a full git tree from the hg v4l-dvb
> repo.  That way we can participate in linux-next while still using
> mercurial for development.

I like that *much* better -- good idea!

-Mike

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