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From: Andrew Cowie <andrew@×××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:20:17
Message-Id: 1151115910.8047.16.camel@procyon.operationaldynamics.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:28 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
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3 > Now, the java team is an official Gentoo project...
4
5 And even more pertinent (and a point that got lost in all this, sadly):
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7 The gentoo-java's migration effort is NOT an overlay in the sense that
8 breakmygentoo or sunrise are. It is merely a branch.
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10 If we were using a distributed version control tool, or even subversion
11 for the tree rather than good ol' CVS, I'm quite sure that all of their
12 work would have been done on a branch inside the primary tree's revision
13 control system, rather than externally in a (whoa) subversion repo of
14 their own.
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16 Oh well. I just hope this doesn't affect nichoj and karltk and the
17 others too badly as they finish up their year+ of effort to complete
18 this branch and merge it back into HEAD.
19
20 AfC
21 Sydney
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