Re: Leaving DPMT?
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Stephan Peijnik <debian@sp.or.at> wrote:
> First of all, I do not consider myself to be a 'major' contributor to
> the DPMT either.
>
> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 15:07 +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> No, what I said was:
>>
>> - I see no need to move to git as a team
>> - I can't afford to download all the git repos for packages I want to
>> modify once
>
> I can to some agree with Sandro here. I'm not a big fan of svn, but for
> the DPMT repository svn looks like the right choice to me.
> The big benefit of using svn is that each and every directory in a svn
> repository can be checked out forming a stand-alone local copy. And this
> exactly is not possible with other recently more-popular VCS such as
> Mercurial and git.
>
> Well, it would be possible to create a separate repository for each and
> every package, but as Piotr already put it, it would make certain tasks
> harder to achieve.
>
> Just think of the X-Svn-* to Svn-* field change recently. With separate
> repositories for each package one would first have to look up every
> repository URL, check out all of them, then apply the change to all of
> them and push all of them back.
>
> With svn it is as simple as checking out one directory (ie. packages/),
> apply the change and then do a single commit, which will push back all
> changes.
>
> Now the svn way seems a lot less complex to me, and that's why I would
> prefer staying with svn.
>
> However, if someone can point out that a 'better' vcs that has this
> 'every-directory-can-be-a-repository' behaviour, please do so and I
> would be happy to give that a try.
>
> Oh, last but not least, there's the old saying 'never change a running
> system', which one should really keep in mind when discussing such
> changes.
We discussed that in the pust, just find the discussion on this list
before. I apologize for opening it again.
Ondrej
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