Re: ct-ng -> git repos instead of single patches

[Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl at pengutronix dot de>]

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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
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>>> Well, the vendor name has to be globally unique by definition,
>> ... which is perhaps why Java uses a FQDN.
> 
> Yes, but in java world there are way more vendors and names 
> than in oss-qm. It's completely different world.
> 
> But: yes, we could also fqdns, but with the drawbacks that:
> 
> a) vendor names (and so all refs) get much longer

there's a bash completion for git.

> b) the naming scheme has to be changed to support dots in vendor names.
> 
> When defining the naming scheme, I played around with slashes as
> delimiters, but that tended to confuse git (in it's own namespacing)
> Maybe we could use some other character ?

hmmm, i never had problems with it, however you're not allowed to have a
branch called foo and foo/bar, because internally git tracks this as
files in the filesystem. You cannot have a file and a directory both
called "foo" in the same directory.

cheers, Marc
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