On 30 August 2011 10:50, Christian Robottom Reis kiko@linaro.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:46:55AM -0500, Zach Pfeffer wrote:
Because we push everything upstream.
While I agree with that blanket statement, there's no reason we wouldn't provide a [potentially temporary] version of repo that included the changes we're pushing upstream.
We do this for every one of the components we ship, so I see no philosophical reason why we wouldn't do so for repo.
Is there a technical reason?
repo bootstraps itself by syncing the repo guts from google, google signs the repo guts so that people know that they're using a trusted source. As our repo in not a trusted source, people may be reluctant to use it and will instead use Google's version which won't work 100% of the time for the reasons already discussed.
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