[U-Boot] [STATUS] Custodians - please lend a hand

[Andy Fleming]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
>
>> On 11/16/2011 07:51 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>
>> Wolfgang,
>>
>>>>
>>>> Please let's try if this works.  If you have any suggestions how to
>>>> help better, please don't hesitate to tell us.
>>
>> I have tried with a couple of patches (network related), and then I
>> wanted to test if push works. As u-boot-staging should be open for all
>> custodians, I was expecting I should use the same mechanism, and then I
>> tried with:
>>
>>
>> git push ssh://gu-imx@git.denx.de/u-boot-staging sbabic at denx.de
>>
>> ...but the new branch sbabic at denx.de is now part of u-boot-imx, not
>> u-boot-staging ! Where is the mistake ?
>
> Indeed - this is because of the setup of the custodian trees.  The git
> action is directly coupled to the user account so the account gu-imx
> will _only_ be able to work inside that tree.  Effectively, the
> directory part of the URL is discarded...
>
> The correct usage is of course as Wolfgang points out through the
> gu-staging user.
>

Might I humbly suggest that the custodians just push changes to a
separate branch in their own trees? It should be effectively the same,
but without everyone possibly hitting the same repository at the same
time...

Andy