RE: [Xen-devel] motivation for sparse trees?

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi, sorry if I've missed the explanation somewhere, but 
> what's the motivation for keeping sparse trees for the OSs 
> instead of full trees?
> 
> For PPC work, we've been using a full hg Linux tree, and it's 
> made things very convenient to pull, merge, and diff work 
> with upstream. In fact I think every Linux developer out 
> there has multiple trees, even though they probably aren't 
> modifying more than a dozen for any particular project. Any 
> reason we don't do this with Xen development?

The plan is to move to a sperate Linux hg tree as part of preparing code
for mergeing. 

The motivation for the sparse tree is that it massively reduces the size
of the repo, and serves to highlight the files we've modified.

Ian

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