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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gentoo-x86 migration to repo-per-package
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:30:05
Message-Id: 20110807092903.GL20656@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gentoo-x86 migration to repo-per-package by "Michał Górny"
1 On 07-08-2011 11:21:51 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
3 > > This can be done with a single commit to the rsync tree script, and it
4 > > doesn't necessarily need git repos.
5 >
6 > And have you considered the function PoV on this?
7 >
8 > With clean git repo: few commits, git push
9 >
10 > With your split-tree: a lot of commits to random packages, potentially
11 > using random VCS-es, a lot of pushes, hacking some magical rsync stuff
12 > and finally guessing what went wrong this time
13
14 Ideally, only one VCS would be in use. For the current situation there
15 is both CVS and git, though.
16
17 With some experience from the Prefix rsync tree generation (CVS + SVN),
18 I can tell the magic is quite absent, and I've seen no "guessing what
19 went wrong this time".
20
21 I have considered it.
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25 Fabian Groffen
26 Gentoo on a different level