Re: Breaks in lenny
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Having the repository on alioth doesn't necessarily help if you're
>> talking about something like Subversion (and particularly CVS)
>> depending on the use case. I don't think we really get back the
>> functionality of quilt until we're shipping the repository with the
>> source package. Having access to a read-only Subversion repository
>> doesn't really help with merging local patches into new upstream
>> releases, for example
> Having a svn repo makes it fairly easy to update to a new upstream
> version. See svn-upgrade(1). (At least I assume svn-upgrade works about
> as well as my own svn-uupdate script that I've used for a thousand or so
> such updates, and which works about equally well as git-import-orig
> based on the 10 or so times I've used that so far.)
I don't understand how svn-upgrade would work when you don't have write
access to the repository, which I would expect to be the case in the
situation you're talking about (the number of Alioth projects that allow
global write is very limited at present). Could you explain?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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