EDK2 git mirror(s)

[Jon Medhurst (Tixy)]

On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 17:06 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> > How are these repositories expected to be used? Is the idea that they
> > get cloned by teams/people working on edk2 and this will save them the
> > hassle of dealing with svn? (Unless they're involved in upstreaming work
> > of course.)
> 
>  These can be useful in multiple ways.  For people working on the
>  upstream edk2 bits, they can start from the git repo instead of SVN;
>  it's longer to checkout the git repo (5 minutes here), but you get the
>  benefits of git (distributed SVN, cheap branches etc.).  They can start
>  from the mirror and configure the original SVN repo as a remote and
>  directly commit their git patches as commits upstream.
> 
>  The other way this can be useful is for ARM or Linaro to offer their
>  branches of edk2.  Currently, one has to apply patch files manually
>  before building edk2 for ARM.  These could be pre-committed in an
>  edk2-arm.git repo which would be regularly rebased on edk2.git.
>    The same goes for a Linaro branch where we could add support for this
>  or that extra platform or toolchain or develop new features.
> 
>  Did you have other uses in mind?

It was the second use I had in mind, and the first also sounds handy.
Thanks for explaining.

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Tixy