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From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [ANN] Introducing new "test" branch in powerpc.git tree
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:56:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234094169.5081.540.camel@thor.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233942156.5081.454.camel@thor.local>

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 18:42 +0100, Michel D=C3=A4nzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 15:58 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:56:22AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > >
> > >> Which begs the question of what master is for.  So far, it's just be=
en
> > >> a mirror of next from what I can tell.  Maybe it should just track
> > >> Linus' tree?
> > >
> > >I've been wondering myself what to do with it ... I may just leave it =
to
> > >track linus indeed. Or maybe just delete it.
> >=20
> > I don't think you can delete it without hosing people who try to clone =
it.
>=20
> The branch to check out by git clone can be overridden via a special
> file in the .git directory in the shared repository. Unfortunately
> though, I don't remember what it's called...

According to Julien Cristau of the Debian X Strike Force (none of the
Git repos of which have a master branch), it should be .git/HEAD. Some
experiments of mine seem to confirm this.


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Earthling Michel D=C3=A4nzer           |                http://www.vmware.c=
om
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-08 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05  4:01 [ANN] Introducing new "test" branch in powerpc.git tree Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-05  4:20 ` Grant Likely
2009-02-05  9:45   ` Wolfram Sang
2009-02-05 16:06     ` Grant Likely
2009-02-05 16:10       ` Wolfram Sang
2009-02-05  5:53 ` Kumar Gala
2009-02-05  7:02   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-05 13:47 ` Josh Boyer
2009-02-05 20:56   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-05 20:58     ` Josh Boyer
2009-02-06 17:42       ` Michel Dänzer
2009-02-08 11:56         ` Michel Dänzer [this message]

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