[U-Boot-Users] Changes to U-Boot Development Process

Josh Boyer
2007-01-18T14:51:51Z

On 1/18/07, Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@smiths-aerospace.com> wrote:
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> [snip]
>
> > We would like to follow the Linux precedent by assembling a list of
> > people willing to invest time and effort into this; the already
> > existing MAINTAINERS file will serve a new function to list the
> > individual custodians with their corresponding area of responsibilty
> > and contact information.
> >
> > Each custodian will have to administrate his or her git tree to
> > streamline transparent development and integration (pulling) into the
> > "official" U-Boot repository. If the need should arise (for example,
> > if a custodian doesn't have convenient means to host it himself),
> > DENX will of course be glad to host such trees.
>
> It I don't know if the request is reasonable in terms of disk space and
> burdening denx.de with administrative work, but it would be nice if the
> primary maintainers had their official feeder repositories on the
> denx.de site. It is _very_ useful to have the feeder git repositories
> in one place for easy reference, and that way the repositories would
> tend to be more stable and available.

Git can clone on a local machine and use the --reference option to
point to the official tree. That means that the maintainer's trees
would not need the full set of all the objects in the tree as the main
tree will be used as a reference for those. This greatly reduces the
storage overhead for those trees.

Just an FYI.

josh