Re: [ANNOUNCE] The -rt git tree

Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-12-09T18:38:17Z

2008/12/9 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>:
>
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Fr?d?ric Weisbecker wrote:
>>
>> Hi Steve.
>>
>> That's a good news.
>>
>> But after converting these spinlocks into lock_t, how will you synchronize with
>> the mainline on each release? You will have a huge amount of conflicts
>> at every merges...
>
> This is why master is separate from rt-master. The rt-master will grow
> like tip/master does. But the master will be recreated each time.
> Basically, the creation of master is this:
>
>
> git checkout master
> git reset --hard rt-master
> ./scripts/convert-spinlocks
> git commit -a -m 'Convert all spinlocks to lock_t'
> ./scripts/convert-locks
> git commit -a -m 'Convert some locks back to spinlock_t'
>
> Thus we do not need to worry about the conflicts caused by the lock
> conversion. That will be done automatically each time we create a new
> master.

I see... A lot is done with the scripts. I think I will follow closely
what happens on this tree :-)
Thanks!