Hotspot shell games (original) (raw)

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Sat Jun 6 15:59:24 PDT 2009


There's a cultural reason for keeping only one "head" per repo, namely that the prior source code control system "Teamware" was used this way at Sun. I expect also in future this will be the case; "branch" will be spelled "clone".

Martin

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:40, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>wrote:

Yes, that's what he wanted and no, they would not sit on top of hs15/16 - the repo would look like this (you probably want to look at this with a fixed size font such that it makes sense): -> hs14b01->..->hs14b10->hs15b01->..->hs16b01->.. (default branch) __ (initial hsx14 clone) __ ->hs14b10->hs14b11->..->hs14b17->.. (HSX14 branch) The HSX14 branch can be easily created in the jdk7/hotspot repo by syncing to "hs14b10" and pulling from the HSX14 repo. You just create a new head in jdk7/hotspot - that's all... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/attachments/20090606/cd63fb79/attachment.html



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