p4u/confine-dist — comment on commit fe9d9f8118af8ff5de39bcb80604e3c43e905f79
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By nathansamson:

For reference, the list of all repositories and a view of them can be seen at http://nbd.name/gitweb.cgi

Problem with these are that there are openwrt.git and packages.git repositories that both follow the trunk, but don't have a "backfire" branch.
A separate backfire.git is available, but no corresponding backfire-packages.git (note that there is a 8.09 packages branch).

So problem one is that there is no backfire packages git repo.
A second problem is that even if there was one it would be a separate repo (looking at how they organised all the other repo's with no branches in the repo). This makes it harder for us to clone the packages branch, and "maintain" two branches ourselves backporting fixes if necessary (most problems seem to appear in both trunk as backfire). (Merging and cherry-picking between two completely different git repositories is not possible)

A solution would be with the help of git-svn (and / or git svn fast import) creating one packages repo with both backfire and trunk, and one openwrt repo also with two branches backfire and repo.