From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38940 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PmS8P-0001C1-5Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:32:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PmS8N-0001fb-Ne for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:32:08 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.214.45]:49829) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PmS8N-0001fV-Is for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:32:07 -0500 Received: by bwz16 with SMTP id 16so5080673bwz.4 for ; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:32:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D500262.9060102@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:32:02 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] New stable branch information References: <4D4BF036.3050005@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4D4D1434.6060209@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4D4FEE95.3050603@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Michael Tokarev , "Justin M. Forbes" , qemu-devel On 02/07/2011 08:09 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Anthony Liguori writes: > > >> 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. >> > You go ahead do what you think is right, but I wouldn't bother with > this. Separate trees are easier to set up and maintain, and they're > almost as easy to use: just pull from all the trees you're interested. > Yeah, for folks that aren't familiar with remotes, it's worth reading http://gitref.org/remotes/#remote I have probably a couple dozen remotes in my qemu tree. Once it's setup, there's really no difference in working with a branch in a different tree than working with one on origin. But I still like the idea of a single tree. Regards, Anthony Liguori