Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl): (only a few comments here and there) > - partman components are very tightly coupled > Very frequently changes, such as adding ext4 support, requires making > related changes to multiple components. Being able to do so in a single > branch in a single repository is of huge practical benefit. Isn't there room for a compromise here: make partman a single component? > - My "partman cleanup" in 2007 would have been a pain if components had all > been in different repositories; I did major reshuffling across components > by rebasing in my git-svn checkout while working on that. > - For multi-CD support feature I required strongly related changes in > di-utils, apt-setup and pkgsel. > - My recent "recommends" change required related changes in di-utils, > base-installer, pkgsel and preseed. Similarly, there could be grouped components in other areas, though here it might be harder to find such groups. > Agreed. SVN is not ideal for branching, especially since it does not > support off-line commits. > > But IMO we don't have that much need for branching, other than temporary > "work in progress" branches, which in most cases are fairly short-lived and > private. That's why IMO git-svn is a relatively suitable solution. > Colin had a strong interest in branching, IIRC, just as do people who are annoyed to keep their invasive changes in their own local repos (or in people/) while a freeze is in progress). Branching could also have benefit a work such as the one you did to improve the expert mode (which, by the way, is probably another good example of a change that affects many components...).
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