linux-kernel - Re: MAINTAINERS tree branches [xen tip as an example]

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:42:11 -0800
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS tree branches [xen tip as an example]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:02 AM, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com> wrote:
> On 20/01/14 18:33, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> Is the delta of what is queued for the next release typically small?
>> Otherwise someone doing development based on linux.git alone should
>> have conflicts with anything on the queue, no?
>
> We've not had any issues so far.

Will give that a shot.

>>>     To see what's queued for the next release, the next merge window,
>>>     and other work in progress:
>>>
>>>         The Xen subsystem maintainers' tip.git tree.
>>
>> That's the thing, you can't clone the tip.git tree today well, there
>> are undefined references and git gives up, asking for the linux-next
>> branch however did work.
>
> I think it did work, you just needed to checkout a branch manually.

Indeed, I just didn't expect random developer to know how to fix this,
and if other git trees will exist in the same form I figured its best
to extend MAINTAINERS to specify the preference for a branch. In this
case, since the branch is not recommended for development, I suppose
the recommendation no longer applies for this tree.

> But it looks like Konrad has pushed a master branch recently, as well.

That gives me a warm fuzzy, thanks.

 Luis
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