On Monday, January 12, 2009 3:22 am Tomas Carnecky wrote: > On 01/09/2009 06:32 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > Oh, don't use the modesetting-gem branch anymore. The master branch of > > the drm tree has all the libdrm bits you need, and Linus' git tree has > > the kernel mode setting bits you need (even better would be to use Eric's > > tree, it has a few fixes destined for Linus: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel > > drm-intel-next branch). > > Many of the fdo and kernel.org trees have such old branches. In git > these are basically throwaway branches where features are developed. But > once the branches are merged into master, they have no reason to exist > anymore. Having them there just confuses people. Would you consider > deleting some of the old branches? > > For example, of the 70 branches in xf86-video-intel, 27 have already > been merged with master (git branch -r --merged origin/master).
Yeah, we could probably do better at removing old branches. In the specific case of modesetting-gem though (and modesetting-101) we need to keep them around, both for reference and because the radeon stuff is still active in modesetting-gem afaik. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
