Andrew Morton wrote:
Most of the other git-tree maintainers don't bother with any of that.
acpi, agp, alsa, arm, ... xfs. The trees which have special -mm branches
are just drm, ieee1394, jfs, mips and netdev.
[related tangent, in case this is useful to others]
It's not quite correct to say that I have a special -mm branch. In my
two primary work areas, libata-dev.git and netdev-2.6.git, I have a
bunch of branches, which fall into three categories:
'master': vanilla upstream Linus tree
themes: various patch queues, each for a single purpose.
standard patch queues include...
upstream: stuff queued for upstream
upstream-fixes: stuff queued for -rc
8139-thread: example non-upstream dev branch
ncq: another non-upstream dev branch
'ALL': a superset merge of all theme branches which
are considered OK for testing by brave users.
The 'ALL' superset branch is not only what you (Andrew) pull into -mm,
its also the basis for -libataN and -netdevN patches, and in general the
best way for users to slurp "all the useful bits."
Using theme branches and a superset branch allows for maximum parallel
development -- even applying conflicting patches -- and then using git
to merge them together. The separated-out branches also allow for
fine-grained selection of the material to push upstream, i.e. no false
dependencies, easier cherrypicking.
I've actually worked this way since the early BitKeeper days; BK didn't
make it easy for me to export the tons of local theme branches I
manipulated, just the superset branch. Since git makes it easy, you
finally get the full picture of libata/netdev development, and the best
of both worlds: both a superset branch (easy testing) and theme
branches (parallel development).
Jeff
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