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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:07:33 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] New stable branch information
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To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: "Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 02/05/2011 03:11 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 04.02.2011 15:25, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
>> To help make the stable branch more active than it has been in the past,
>> I'd like to split the stable branch into a separate tree to allow the
>> tree to develop a life of its own over time.
>>      
> What's the difference between a separate tree and a branch in main tree?
> Why separate tree is needed?  As far as I can see, both serves the same
> purpose, but to me a separate branch is easier to handle (comparing etc).
>    

Without overhauling how we host our git tree, I can't give fine grain 
access to specific branches.

I'm going to look into that in the not too distant future but it's not 
going to happen short term.

So for now, we'll have separate trees and I'll work on getting the right 
infrastructure such that we can have one.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> /mjt
>
>