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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: better policy for ChageLogs
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:04:51
Message-Id: BANLkTi=cVYzrLnwdY0dJyk=mpOzwK6DRcQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: better policy for ChageLogs by "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto"
1 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2 <jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote:
3 > To be clear I support the goal to move our tree to git.
4 > However, I'd like to point out that simply moving to git will leave us
5 > in the same state. Assuming everyone agrees that git is far more useful
6 > than cvs to check for changes in the tree, a simple but important issue
7 > remains: the plan is to move the "development tree" to git, but to keep
8 > the rsync mirrors for users. So the "move to git" doesn't fix the issue
9 > for users or developers using an rsync tree.
10
11 Temporarily or permanently?
12
13 One of the huge benefits in using git would be really fast emerge
14 --syncs. Not having some kind of system for migrating users to git
15 seems like a lot of the benefits are lost.
16
17 Matt

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: better policy for ChageLogs Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>