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On 20:05 Mon 26 Jan , Mike Auty wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > Wouldn't it be great if Mike could simple merge his package into the |
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> > tree without losing all that history? This would make git-bisect |
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> > meaningful, instead of bringing in a huge collection of unrelated |
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> > changes in a single commit. |
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> I don't think "huge collection of unrelated changes in a single commit" |
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> fits for either 1 repo/tree or 1 repo/package. In either case I'd |
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> expect a single commit to be a single set of relevant changes, or have I |
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> not understood what you meant? In the 1 repo/tree, I'd only expect to |
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> see commits that spanned package directories if they were in some way |
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> relevant (changing all the license for something like gst-plugins-*)... |
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Many people develop eclasses in overlays. They might make 30 commits, |
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and then merge it all to the main tree in a single commit that says |
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something like "Merge from kde overlay." That makes tracking down bugs a |
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real pain. |
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> > Just curious why you want to post it as a separate repo? If you come up |
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> > with a magic repacking command, just push your new commits and ask Robin |
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> > to run a repack. |
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> I wasn't intending to, it was just if people had specific requests. I'm |
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> also hoping to keep it more up to date (the one on exp/gentoo-x86.git |
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> doesn't seem to have had a history update in a few months). |
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> Unfortunately since I'm using cvsimport rather than cvs2svn, the log |
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> messages produced are likely to be different. Since they're a part of |
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> the commit, it won't be a case of simply commiting my changes, since all |
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> the hashes will be different. However, as I said, it's mostly a little |
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> local experiment, and I'd only post it if there were requests... |
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When it's an experiment, it's more important to test functionality than |
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to keep it up to date. We aren't making real commits to it. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |