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

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

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

The master branch can be linked to the #linux-next or stable/for-linus.

That would solve the problem I think.
>Curious, how
>many other git are there with a similar situation ?
>
>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 ?

Thank you for reporting. Will fix it next week if nobody else beats me to it.
>
>[0]
>https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/Next/Trees#n176
>[1] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-01/msg01504.html
>[2] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git
>[3]
>http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Repositories#Primary_Xen_Repository
>[4] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git
>
>mcgrof@bubbles ~ $ git clone
>git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git --reference
>linux/.git
>Cloning into 'tip'...
>remote: Counting objects: 2806, done.
>remote: Compressing objects: 100% (334/334), done.
>remote: Total 1797 (delta 1511), reused 1646 (delta 1462)
>Receiving objects: 100% (1797/1797), 711.01 KiB | 640.00 KiB/s, done.
>Resolving deltas: 100% (1511/1511), completed with 306 local objects.
>Checking connectivity... done.
>warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
>
>mcgrof@work ~ $ git clone
>git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git -b linux-next
>--reference linux/.git
>Cloning into 'tip'...
>remote: Counting objects: 2806, done.
>remote: Compressing objects: 100% (377/377), done.
>remote: Total 1797 (delta 1545), reused 1607 (delta 1419)
>Receiving objects: 100% (1797/1797), 485.23 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
>Resolving deltas: 100% (1545/1545), completed with 327 local objects.
>Checking connectivity... done.
>Checking out files: 100% (44979/44979), done.
>
>  Luis


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