Re: Let dak commit all source packages to Git
Le Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 09:36:39AM +0100, Thomas Koch a écrit :
> Hi Michael, Zack, et al,
>
> thank you Michael for codesearch. Since somebody asked about code browsing and
> Zack is interested in some source.debian.org I wanted to mention my dream:
>
> For every debian source package that enters the archive, dak should commit the
> source code to a public readable Git repository and put a signed tag on it.
>
> Then:
>
> - One can just put a git repo browser in front of all git repos and have
> browsable source code of Debian.
>
> - One can just issue
>
> git clone --branch=$VERSION git://git.XYZ.debian.org/$SOURCEPACKAGE
>
> and get the versioned source code of any Debian package even of those whose
> maintainers do not yet understand the beauty and superiority of Git. :-)
>
> Would something like that help your project? I imagine that such an
> infrastructure could be a base for many nice project that we do not imagine
> yet.
Hi Thomas,
this is a great idea.
If you or others succeed in this entreprise, I would like to recommend to
commit the buildd logs for each package as well. I do it for my own packages
and found it valuable.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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