[mythtv] FFmpeg plans

Paul Harrison mythtv at sky.com
Tue May 15 17:05:22 UTC 2018


On 15/05/18 16:51, David Engel wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 07:44:11PM -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>
>> On 05/14/2018 04:04 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/14/2018 02:11 PM, David Engel wrote:
>>>> Did you try without squash?  I know whatever we do will be tedious,
>>>> but what you describe below with our own, second repository sound more
>>>> so.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>> I did not. I will create another branch in my repository and try that.
>>>
>>> Peter
>> Tested Without squash and without private repo:
>>
>> It works fine I am able to merge updates from ffmpeg wiothout conflicts as
>> well as cherry pick a commit without problem, using the procedure in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12978260/how-do-i-go-to-a-specific-commit-using-git-subtree
>>
>> The log is full of ffmpeg entries. We will need some filtering on "git log"
>> to make it useful. I have not looked into that. Look at
>> https://github.com/bennettpeter/mythtv and select the "ffmpeg-subtree"
>> branch. Notice it has 125000 commits, as opposed to the master branch, which
>> has 34000.
>>
>> I think this is a good solution, as long as other developers are not too
>> unhappy about the log situation.
> The log bloat is unfortunate, but I think this solution is better than
> the other alternatives so far.  Thanks for testing all of this.
>
> David
>

Do we really want to see all the ffmpeg commits in our git logs? I hate 
the idea :(

Paul H.


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