On 17-08-2006 13:25:14 -0400, Armando Di Cianno wrote:

Armando!!!!!!!!!!

(you don't know me, but I DO feel aquintanced with you, hahahaha ...
GNUstep)

> Hi, all.  I've just subscribed to the list, after chatting with  
> people on #gentoo-osx.  I'm *fervently* excited about getting portage- 
> prefix on gentoo-osx to a stable level.  IMHO, fink has had it's  
> glory days, and darwinports seems both stable, and incredibly  
> terrible at the same time.

Aham...

> > So, not being too much familiar with the plethora of VCSes around
> > and their capabilities, do you have an idea of how you can easily
> > pull the svn tree and keep your own changes in there, submitting
> > patches every now and then to include them on the main tree?
> 
> If you have a local svn trunk that looks like
>  trunk/Adir
>  trunk/Bdir
>  trunk/Cdir
> then you can do something like the following:
>  cd trunk
>  svn propedit svn:externals A
>  (editor opens)
>  dir-name-that-will-be-created-in-Adir svn://gentoo.org/svn/portage/ 
> trunk
>  (save, close editor)
>  svn update
>  ls Adir
>  ./Adir/dir-name-that-will-be-created-in-Adir
> ... and the code in that external trunk will be in that named  
> directory inside Adir.

Heu... ehm.  Ok, I guess this shows it can easily be done with svn, so
that's great!

> What this /doesn't/ let you do is commit back to the external (unless  
> you actually had authenticated access).  But, gratuitous use of svn  
> diff could be used to submit patches.

Of course.  In CVS I can imagine that CVS just merges all updates all
the time.  With git I know you can have your own local commits, so my
idea was basically like this.  Not ideal for non-gentoo devs, but I
think that's the easiest way for now to get the work contributed and in
the main tree.

> Conceivably, this method could also be used to host a prefix-enabled  
> portage ebuild tree, that we /could/ submit back to, and then  
> "official" devs could update the diffs themselves.

In the spirit of the much criticised Sunrise, I wouldn't really "care"
if someone set up a central repo where non-devs commit their stuff in,
and that I periodically pull over all changes.  I have the bandwith
available to host it myself (would make it even easier to do the sync I
suppose) but not the machine at the moment.  (Need to do a lot of
painting etc. anyway too, so I can't set it up soon.)

I'd be very very very happy if we could get some movement here, so if
you folks can start, please do!  I will help wherever that is possible.


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