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On 18:10 Mon 26 Jan , Mike Auty wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > I'm still not convinced of that. The alternative would require a patch |
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> > to git-submodules, some additional tools support for grabbing additional |
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> > repos with checkouts and repoman, but it has some compelling advantages |
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> > (like non-devs don't need 1 GB of web space / bandwidth to post their |
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> > forks of the tree). |
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> Aren't the existing overlays a suitable method of tree forking? |
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If you don't care about history. I do. Picture this use case: |
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Mike is a user without push access to the main tree. He forks off a copy |
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of package Foo-1.0. The Gentoo maintainer quit. Mike bumps this package |
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5 times, makes major changes to the ebuild, and eventually becomes a dev |
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so he can get his changes in. |
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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, making bisection useless for finding bugs. |
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> I agree, 1Gb's a bit steep, but someone commented[1] that they'd |
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> compressed their (relatively current) checkout down to 650ish Mb. |
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Thanks for the pointer to that thread, I hadn't seen it! |
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> Rereading past threads it looks like we still need someone to try |
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> setting up and running repoman against git's cvsserver implementation. |
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I don't really think this matters. At some point we'll want to cut off |
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CVS access. Whether we have git in place on only a test repo or on the |
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gold repo before this cutoff doesn't seem like it would be that |
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relevant. |
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> I'll see how small I can make my repo, and if it's significantly smaller |
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> (under 700Mb), I can post it to dev.g.o for those that want to duplicate |
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> it (although, as ever, please be nice to infra and yoink it using http |
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> not ssh). Also remember that doing cvsimported git repos should be |
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> cloned from rather than modified directly (I think it breaks the ability |
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> to do further incremental updates)... |
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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 expect Robin would want to set you up on git.overlays.g.o if you |
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really want to post it. He got a little annoyed with me when I put mine |
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on dev.g.o. |
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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 |
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