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

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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?

Depends
>Otherwise someone doing development based on linux.git alone should
>have conflicts with anything on the queue, no?

Potentially. Usually the maintainer will spot where there are potential conflicts and give you a branch to base on.

>
>>     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.

It should work now. I made master point to 3.13.
>
>  Luis


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