Re: [Xen-devel] relation between upstream qemu tree and qemu-upstream-unstable.git

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 11:56 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Jan Beulich writes ("[Xen-devel] relation between upstream qemu tree and 
> > > qemu-upstream-unstable.git"):
> > > > How is the supposedly strait clone on xenbits related to the "real" 
> > > > tree?
> > > > It doesn't seem to be tracking it, so I'm sort of confused whether I
> > > > could in fact use the upstream tree in favor of the made up mirror.
> > > 
> > > AIUI qemu-upstream-unstable is not a direct copy of the upstream tree,
> > > but rather one with various other patches needed for Xen.  But Stefano
> > > will be able to comment for sure.
> > 
> > Hi Jan,
> > qemu-upstream-unstable.git is not a mirror of an upstream tree: while it is
> > based on qemu-stable-1.0.git, it is going to have many more Xen specific
> > backports than the upstream stable tree.
> 
> The default rule will be that such patches will be backports though,
> right? e.g. backported patches must have already been committed to the
> upstream dev branch, somewhat similar to the Linux kernel
> stable_kernel_rules.txt?
 
Yes, I meant backports of upstream commits.

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