From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1E2a3sB024073 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:36:03 -0500 Received: from host06.hostingexpert.com (host06.hostingexpert.com [216.80.70.60]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1E2Zgx8012023 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:35:42 -0500 Message-ID: <47B3A8F9.3080106@linuxtv.org> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:35:37 -0500 From: Michael Krufky MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brandon Philips References: <20080205012451.GA31004@plankton.ifup.org> <20080205080038.GB8232@plankton.ifup.org> <20080205102409.4b7acb01@gaivota> <20080213202055.GA26352@plankton.ifup.org> <37219a840802131524i33e34930uc95b7a12d484526a@mail.gmail.com> <20080214023415.GB23519@plankton.ifup.org> In-Reply-To: <20080214023415.GB23519@plankton.ifup.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com, Guennadi Liakhovetski , v4lm , Brandon Philips , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Moving to git for v4l-dvb List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: video4linux-list-bounces@redhat.com List-ID: Brandon Philips wrote: > On 18:24 Wed 13 Feb 2008, Michael Krufky wrote: > >> On Feb 13, 2008 3:20 PM, Brandon Philips 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 -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list