[lime-dev] git repos explanation

This is a braindump while i'm trying to understand the whole mess of repos and feeds, in addition to lime-build and such, looking forward to having a libre-mesh release codenamed "bigbang", and the steps we need in order to do that. the objective is to have a "snapshot" of everything, so that cloning lime-build release and running make, will produce the same binary, at any future time, no matter what happens with 3rd party repos. * https://github.com/libre-mesh/lime-build.git starting point, it contains the references to all other repos. --> Make a staging branch "release/14.08" * https://github.com/libre-mesh/lime-packages.git (referenced in lime-build/feeds.conf) libre-mesh packages. --> Make a staging branch "release/14.08" then, other repos we cloned and "snapshotted": * https://github.com/libre-mesh/openwrt.git (referenced in lime-build/config.mk) base openwrt buildroot. cloned from git://git.openwrt.org/openwrt.git --> Make an immortal branch "release/14.08" * https://github.com/libre-mesh/openwrt-packages.git (referenced in lime-build/feeds.conf) maintained packages feed. cloned from git://github.com/openwrt/packages.git original repo has a branch named "for-14.07" --> Make an immortal branch "release/14.08" tracking "for-14.07" * https://github.com/libre-mesh/openwrt-oldpackages.git (referenced in lime-build/feeds.conf) old packages feed. cloned from git://git.openwrt.org/packages.git --> Make an immortal branch "release/14.08" * https://github.com/libre-mesh/openwrt-routing-packages.git (referenced in lime-build/feeds.conf) cloned from git://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages.git original repo has a branch named "for-14.07" --> Make an immortal branch "release/14.08" tracking "for-14.07" * https://github.com/libre-mesh/openwrt-luci.git (referenced in lime-build/feeds.conf) cloned from git://git.openwrt.org/project/luci.git --> Make an immortal branch "release/14.08" * https://github.com/libre-mesh/libremap-agent.git (referenced in lime-build/feeds.conf) cloned from git://github.com/libremap/libremap-agent-openwrt.git --> Make an immortal branch "release/14.08" i know this means a loooot of repos that we have to "maintain" on our own (in a way), but: * it's the only method to have something that we control completely * normally they will be just mirrors of the original repo, and pulling changes from upstream should be as easy as "git pull upstream ; git push github-lime" not all of those repos were mirrored, and currently lime-build is pointing at the original (upstream) repos. I'll fix that in a minute. also, i changed the "default" branch of lime-packages to *develop*, to make development progress more visible. so now if you git clone lime-packages, you'll get bleeding edge code, unless you checkout "stable" branch (i.e. what was previously called master) or some particular release while this deviates just a little bit from nvie "gitflow" branching model, i think it is aligned with what people expect when looking at a github repo.