Tracking Android kernel tips and Android builds

[Paul Sokolovsky]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:40:57 -0500
Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfeffer at linaro.org> wrote:

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> The tag thing is a means to an end, to keep the sha's around. If we
> just tracked history trees we'd be fine, but all the rebasing causes
> refs to become unreachable. All trees in Android should be history
> trees so we shouldn't have a problem, but not everyone see's things
> that way so we have the current disappearing sha problem.

Well, asking integration (aka Landing) teams to stop using integration
trees (those which are rebased up and down), a legitimate and best
practice for their kind of usage, is for sure too high a price for
wanting to use SHAs in manifests.


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Best Regards,
Paul

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