Re: Official git repo for numactl (any other VCS would be fine as well)

Hi Filipe, (and Andi)

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:01:38PM -0700, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi Cliff,
> 
> Any chance to set up an official git repository for the numactl source code?
I'm not opposed to it, it's just not high on my list.  We've only had 3
patches in the past year.
 
> This was asked before but not sure it was set up...
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.numa/704
> 
> Looking at numactl-2.0.10-rc1.tar.gz, there are some minor issues with
> the distribution, such as:
> - an empty "numastat" and a x86_64 binary "test/move_pages" are
> included in the tarball
> - many source code files are marked executable
I cleaned those up, thanks.
 
> Furthermore, a central git repository would make it easy to distribute
> a central .gitignore file which would make it easier to develop using
> git.
> 
> I also have some improvements to the Makefile by cleaning up temporary
> files used for detecting features (such as "threadtest", "empty.c" and
> "empty.o") and renaming second use of $(THREAD_SUPPORT) to
> $(TREE_VECTORIZE_SUPPORT) since that's what that feature seems to be
> detecting...
> 
> I'd be happy to help set up a git repository, except that I don't
> really have access to the code history,
All the patches are in a tarball in the tarball: patches.tar.gz

> so I guess the best I could do
> is build it from the unpacked sources present in old_versions/ of the
> download FTP site, which would be fairly coarse... If you have better
> tracking of the history, do you think it would be worth exposing it?
> 
> Thanks!
> Filipe

-Cliff
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