On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 17:06 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote: > > How are these repositories expected to be used? Is the idea that they > > get cloned by teams/people working on edk2 and this will save them the > > hassle of dealing with svn? (Unless they're involved in upstreaming work > > of course.) > > These can be useful in multiple ways. For people working on the > upstream edk2 bits, they can start from the git repo instead of SVN; > it's longer to checkout the git repo (5 minutes here), but you get the > benefits of git (distributed SVN, cheap branches etc.). They can start > from the mirror and configure the original SVN repo as a remote and > directly commit their git patches as commits upstream. > > The other way this can be useful is for ARM or Linaro to offer their > branches of edk2. Currently, one has to apply patch files manually > before building edk2 for ARM. These could be pre-committed in an > edk2-arm.git repo which would be regularly rebased on edk2.git. > The same goes for a Linaro branch where we could add support for this > or that extra platform or toolchain or develop new features. > > Did you have other uses in mind?
It was the second use I had in mind, and the first also sounds handy. Thanks for explaining. -- Tixy _______________________________________________ boot-architecture mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/boot-architecture
