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Re: [RFC] Switching glibc-bsd from svn to git



Hi Guillem,

(swapping some sentences)

> What do people think?

Yes! Please do! I made the same proposal a while back and I'm looking
forward to see that happen.

> I'd even volunteer to switch the repositories, although I'd like to
> keep just the current packaging-only structure, to the point I'd rather
> keep using svn instead of a full-upstream+packaging git repository, which
> I find so annoying that I think I'd stop touching them.

It may make sense to make several independent repositories instead of a
single huge one of (semi-) unrelated packages. For those missing the
familiarity of a single huge chunk of a repository we could use git
submodules.

However, I find working on the shallow glibc-bsd repository increasingly
painful. Given the sheer amount of code I agree we probably do not want
to include lots of upstream code in our repository (or repositories),
but possibly we could find something in between.

Perhaps we could have at least a working trunk including upstream code
for each packaging repository + pristine-tar since we pack all tarballs
ourselves anyway? No need to have (tracking) upstream branches, full
code tags etc though.

Another benefit of using git is, that those wanting all of that can have
their own remotes or local branches providing it.


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Arno Töll
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