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Re: Status of http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS



On Saturday 07 June 2008 10:48:35 pm Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just had a look at http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS and I'm a bit
> afraid. First off, there are plenty of things listed there, which is a
> good thing. But it looks quite messy to me, and even knowing a bit about
> those tools, I'm tempted to run away. :)
>
> I'd like to propose the following things:
>  - Split that page in two pages, e.g. vcs-svn and vcs-git, and link to
>    those pages instead.

Now you'll have two messy pages as opposed to one.

>  - Have a more logical division between the following parts (maybe in a
>    different order):
>     - migration from svn;
> 	- initial import for a new package;
> 	- day to day use.
>
> That said, I've got a couple of comments:
>  - I'd rather point to ~/.gitconfig than to exporting variables (one
>    usually puts the exports in ~/.bashrc and forgets about sourcing it,
>    relogging, etc.; and that's the way to specify those info anyway).
>    Note that it can be overriden with a local .git/config in any git
>    repository.
>  - Use “git *” rather than “git-*” in documentation, since the former is
>    planned for removal. The usage doesn't change at all, but I think
>    it's better to be prepared to use the new form, and now that the
>    documentation will still be available as “man git-*”.
>  - I fear that git pull will create dummy merge entries, I'd rather
>    advocate the use of git fetch, and then git merge or git rebase
>    depending on the appropriate use. I've got to check vcs-pkg.org,
>    there might be nice (possibly graphical) explanations about that.
>
> That's all for now. Oh, and I didn't forget what I wrote an hour ago,
> but I quite sure it's not worth pasting the current page right now, it'd
> be better to have it splitted into smaller parts before discussing it
> more in depth.
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.

Feel free to make any changes to the VCS wiki page.

-- 
Regards,
Andres

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