Re: [patch 0/7] Move BaseUefiTianoCustomDecompressLib from IntelFrameworkModulePkg to MdeModulePkg

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 15:02, Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Ard:
>   I prefer to keep them as the separate repo. One dummy Git repo can be introduced to submodule edk2, edk2-platform, edk2-non-osi, and others. User can use this git repo to get everything.
>

That is not really my point.

A git submodule allows you to store *in* the dependent repository
which exact commit in the core repository you depend on. A dummy git
repo does not work the same way.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ard Biesheuvel [mailto:ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:48 PM
> > To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
> > Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; Bi, Dandan <dandan.bi@intel.com>; edk2-devel-groups-io <devel@edk2.groups.io>; Julien Grall
> > <julien.grall@arm.com>; Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>; Justen, Jordan L <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>; Andrew Fish
> > <afish@apple.com>; Ni, Ray <ray.ni@intel.com>; Wang, Jian J <jian.j.wang@intel.com>; Wu, Hao A <hao.a.wu@intel.com>; Kinney,
> > Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Steele, Kelly <kelly.steele@intel.com>; Sun, Zailiang <zailiang.sun@intel.com>; Qian, Yi
> > <yi.qian@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] Move BaseUefiTianoCustomDecompressLib from IntelFrameworkModulePkg to MdeModulePkg
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 14:46, Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > So, we need to consider the combination of edk2 master + edk2-platform master. When do the incompatible change in edk2 master, we
> > need to update edk2-platform master together.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, it is either that, or we separate them properly, by pulling core
> > EDK2 into edk2-platforms as a git submodule. That way, we can update
> > the upstream commit depended upon instead of assuming that we are
> > always updated in lockstep.