Re: MAINTAINERS tree branches [xen tip as an example]

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:38 AM, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17/01/14 23:02, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> As per linux-next Next/Trees [0], and a recent January MAINTAINERS patch [1]
>> from David one of the xen development kernel git trees to track is
>> xen/git.git [2], this tree however gives has undefined references when doing a
>> fresh clone [shown below], but as expected does work well when only cloning
>> the linux-next branch [also below]. While I'm sure this is fine for
>> folks who can do the guess work do we really want to live with trees like
>> these on MAINTAINERS ? The MAINTAINERS file doesn't let us specify branches
>> required, so perhaps it should -- if we want to live with these ? Curious, how
>> many other git are there with a similar situation ?
>
> We don't recommend doing development work for the Xen subsystem based on
> xen/tip.git so I think it's fine to have to checkout the specific branch
> you are interested in.

OK thanks.

>> The xen project web site actually lists [3] Konrad's xen git tree [4] for
>> development as the primary development tree, that probably should be
>> updated now, and likely with instructions to clone only the linux-next
>> branch ?
>
> I've updated the wiki to read:
>
>     For development the recommended branch is:
>
>         The mainline Linus linux.git tree.

Is the delta of what is queued for the next release typically small?
Otherwise someone doing development based on linux.git alone should
have conflicts with anything on the queue, no?

>     To see what's queued for the next release, the next merge window,
>     and other work in progress:
>
>         The Xen subsystem maintainers' tip.git tree.

That's the thing, you can't clone the tip.git tree today well, there
are undefined references and git gives up, asking for the linux-next
branch however did work.

  Luis
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