Re: Switching to git
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:12, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There was some discussions about switching from SVN to git. I don't
> remember everything but a major blocker was that it is not possible to
> checkout a subtree with git and managing a lot of git repositories will
> make it difficult to do global changes to the "global" repository.
It was also about the possibility to perform a changes on all the
packages with a single commit, and not go in every repo, do the
change, commit.
> There is currently a discussion in debian-devel about how to switch from
> SVN to git and they seem to use "mr".
mr is a really powerful tool to manage (m)ultiple (r)epositories.
> See:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/OCamlTaskForce/GitMigration
> http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS
And they indeed came up with several repositories, one for each package.
Regards,
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