Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: > Hello, > > there was a demand to move from svn to git from Marc and Sebastian. I > also believe, that git would save some maintenance work, mainly because > patches could be prepared and applied more easily to the trees used for > development. Here are my ideas: > > - I would like to keep the out-of-tree code we have currently under SVN > mainly because backward compatibility with older kernels is a really > useful feature, not only for development but also for the real users. > Maintaining a full git tree with that backward compatibility is much > more work, I believe. > > - Move the SVN kernel/2.6/ tree to git, without the "old" drivers > and plus strip-src. > > - Move the SVN can-utils to a separate git tree. > > - Abandon the SVN repository. We keep it, of course, also for support of > 2.4, but we should not spend time for updates.
Looks good. But what about the 2.4 tree? Does is make sense to put it into a separate git tree? I also wondered if i should ask Willy Tarreau if he would take the CAN stuff into the 2.4 mainline ... Regards, Oliver _______________________________________________ Socketcan-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-core
