[alsa-devel] HG vs GIT

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:52:43 +0100 (CET),
Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 05:41:57 -0800 (PST),
> > Trent Piepho wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 05:10:27 -0800 (PST),
> > > > > It would also be a huge PITA for developers who work on multiple
> > > > > sub-systems.  If I want to make a patch for an alsa driver, I have to
> > > > > reboot into an alsa kernel?  I try to go a few months between rebooting.
> > > >
> > > > Hm, what's the problem to pull alsa.git tree to your own working tree?
> > > 
> > > How do I test the driver if it's compiled with the kernel in the alsa.git
> > > tree?  I want to compile the driver against the kernel I'm running now.
> > 
> > Well, I don't get your point.  "git-pull alsa.git" onto your current
> > kernel tree and make.  Then you have the latest ALSA drivers for your
> > current system...
> 
> Pull cannot be used. You'll pull also Linus's changes in tree with this 
> command (which might not be wanted).

Ah, OK, I didn't think that your current tree is behind the ALSA
tree.  But surely there must be an easy way to do that.  At easiest,
I'd make a diff of alsa-git.tree to the upstream and apply it over the
local tree.

(BTW I think we don't track the Linus tree so often once.
 A rebase would be required ocasionally but it should be rare.)

> We'll provide a GNU patch interface to patch your tree as required hidding 
> used SCM system, of course.

It's something like alsa-git.patch in mm tree, right?


Takashi