On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 23:02 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > >> I don't agree on this. GRUB Legacy and GRUB 2 are developed fully >> independently (if any). If we follow your way, the repository would look like >> this: >> >> branches/ >> grub-legacy/ >> prepare_0_97/ >> prepare_0_98/ >> prepare_1_98/ >> prepare_1_99/ >> ... >> >> I feel that this has no logical structure. When we make a branch for GRUB 2, >> we put it under branches, when we modify the "trunk" of GRUB Legacy, we do >> under branches, when we make a branch for GRUB Legacy, we use branches... > > Yes, that's my suggestion. I understand that you may feel uneasy about > it, but I don't think we are going to do many releases from the legacy > branch, maybe one or none at all. > > It's OK to have stable and development branches. grub-legacy is > essentially our stable branch, even though it didn't start as a branch. > > CVS is inherently asymmetric. Certain things just don't work on > branches the way they work on trunk. That's why it was reasonable to > avoid branches with CVS for anything but release preparation. > > Subversion is (more) symmetric. It's possible to develop on any branch, > check the entire history of files, merge changes from other branches. > Separating trunk from other branches in the standard Subversion > repository layout is primarily to give comfort to CVS users, who are > used to having one trunk with a special status. > > We could have GRUB 2 under branches too and have no trunk. But having > GRUB 2 as the trunk gives us the standard layout, which is a good thing. > In any case, I think it's better than any of the "two-headed" solutions.
Hi, If we're using branches, I suggest the following layout: branches grub-legacy trunk tags grub-0.97 grub-1.96 ... trunk is grub2, the current develop branch, and grub-legacy is under branches. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
