[parisc-linux] 2.5 kernel and CVS -- opinions?

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:29:25PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Paul Bame wrote:
> > It's time to start tracking the 2.5 kernel at cvs.parisc-linux.org
> > and there are a few different ways to do it -- I'm looking for opinions.
> > My favorite option at the moment is 1A.
> 
> I'm ok with 1A as well:

I don't have a hard opinion whether having two tree makes more sense than
trunk/branch hoping. People will probably work for some time on 2.4
and switch over to 2.5, so I guess two trees are ok.

> o *someday*, I hope the CVS date-based check out will get fixed.
> o TAGs work and I'm ok with tag being used.

tags are sometimes nice, but too much tags aren't. Try a cvs log with hundreds
of tags. That's not funny. And btw. tags are (re-)movable and they don't have a
history, which makes them pretty useless for any serious build system. At
work we use seperate cvs controlled sourcelists, which lists every file with
its revision of a release. That way it's always possible to rebuild an old
release even if a dork moved/removed a tag.

> o We could TAG weekly (or monthly) and keep enough nightly
>   checkout's to cover two or three tags. Or whatever we can
>   afford for diskspace.

I don't see a point for needing that. But maybe I'm just overlooking something.

I personaly wouldn't touch 2.5 at the moment. Right now 2.5 looks to
me like an adventure park of out of control kids. That's ok but IMHO it
doesn't help Linux/PARISC development. Hunting generic bugs mixed with
architecture bugs isn't fun. Let's wait until 2.5 settles and Linus will
accept PARISC inclusion (which he won't at the moment).

Thomas.

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