On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:19:08PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
Hello Christian,
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:43:40 -0300 Christian Robottom Reis kiko@linaro.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:25:15PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
Yeah, I have patch for that. But we cannot use before upstream accepts it (because people will get errors checking out tree) and I don't hold my breath for that at all.
Why wouldn't we provide our own version of repo that worked around this issue?
By the same reason we don't fork entire Android itself and fixing it to work "right"? ;-)
Either I'm missing the point or you are. We "fork" Android and everything else all the time; we then proceed to send the patches upstream and help them through the process, and so for me the "fork" is more like a cooperative branch.
Look, this is a weird conversation and I want to get out of it as soon as I can. But you guys are overblowing the issue -- I'm just suggesting that if the patch will take a while to go upstream, you can ship a separate repo tool. We do this all the time in Linaro (just look at www.linaro.org/downloads).
It doesn't mean the patch won't go upstream eventually, nor that you won't find another solution -- it just means this thread can end and we can go on working without getting other teams all excited about having to change their source control working models.