On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Jordan Justen <jljus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> >> wrote: >>> On Feb 1, 2013 Jordan Justen wrote: >>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Olivier Martin <olivier.mar...@arm.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Linaro maintains their own git-svn service: >>>> > http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=mirror/edk2/edk2.git;a=summary >>>> It looks as though they are using an independent git-svn mirror. >>>> >>>> Thus their r14118 is not the same as our mirror's r14118: >>>> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/c9e8881516a1a09a5f4b19d459710286524bcda8 >>>> http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=mirror/edk2/edk2.git;a=commit;h=51b74ef3738e7f33b4f93878a3b40cab9254230c >>> >>> Yup, we know about that and it is a problem. We're going to respin the >>> Linaro UEFI tree to use the same git-svn mirror.... My assumption was >>> that this is the tree to use: >>> >>> http://tianocore.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=tianocore/edk2;a=summary >> >> Or https://github.com/tianocore/edk2. So long as EDK II is using svn, >> they are both equal. >> >> I find github's hosting to be a bit faster and more reliable, and the >> http access might be needed for some behind a proxy. >> >> If EDK II were to change to git, I would vote for github hosting to be >> the primary location. Then again, moving the main tree location would >> be much less traumatic with git so, this choice would not be as big of >> a deal as today. > > It almost becomes an irrelevant question. I don't much care which is > the upstream as long as > a) one mirrors the other, and > b) tags are signed. > > If those are both true then for users there isn't any difference. The > signed tags ensure anyone can validate that the tree is unspoilt.
Oh, and the fact that Microsoft now includes git support as a Visual Studio extension suggests that there won't be any howling about using that crazy tool used by Linux geeks. :-) g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
