[ppc-dev] Summary: Restructuring Efforts

[Michael Meissner]

On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 05:12:21PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> Christian Zankel <zankel at tarantel.rz.fh-muenchen.de> wrote:
> 
> > There should be another cvs tree used for developers. A lot of
> > (inofficial) patches are floating around. So, this tree can be used as
> > the common base where developers can start with their patches upon.
> 
> I think a CVS tree for developers is a good idea.  In fact I think we
> need two trees; one for developers to share their latest thoughts, and
> another one where we put stuff once it is tested and known not to
> break things for most users.  The second tree would then be the one
> from which patches get sent to Linus.

Why do people keep mentioning a second tree, and not using something like a
branch off of the main cvs tree?  Within egcs, we use branches for separate
development tasks (1.1.x and mainline).  In fact right now, I have my own
branch for the PowrerPC compiler changes.

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