Tracking Android kernel tips and Android builds

[Paul Sokolovsky]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:21:30 -0400
James Westby <james.westby at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:10:03 -0500, Zach Pfeffer
> <zach.pfeffer at linaro.org> wrote:
> > We've had two instances of this problem for all the builds we've
> > ever done. One instance was trying to sync u-boot and the other was
> > trying to sync the TI LT kernel. John Rigby suggested the branch
> > approach and it seems to have worked, so I'd like to go with that.
> 
> Paul is working on a change to make tags usable as well. It seems to
> me that we have a couple of options
> 
>   1) Use branches long term. Paul can continue to push the patch for
>   correctness sake, but we don't plan to use it.
> 
>   2) Use branches for now. Paul fixes repo to make tags usable, at
> which point we allow people (e.g. Andy) to use those too.
> 
> Which would you advocate?

But we already seem to have decided to use patched repo, no??

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James


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Best Regards,
Paul

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