[Spice-devel] Survey of repository preferences

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 09:57:41AM +0200, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
> > What is a difference between a personal branch and a branch at the offical repo?
> 
> Visibility. Having an implicit way to share not just the diffs (the way patches do)
> but the actual branch. There is a reason kernel.org hosts git repos and not
> just a mailing list with patches: git branches are much easier to deal with.
> That’s why Linus “lieutenants” send him pull requests for whole branches,
> and not individual patches.

I'm not sure if you are implying that Linus "Lieutenants" push their
work on kernel.org before sending him a pull request, but Linus pulls
code from many different places, and each lieutenant decides which place
is best for him. Some examples from a kernel clone I have around:

Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
(the last one being hosted on kernel.org, but in a personal repo)

Christophe
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