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2012/5/24 Dan Douglas <ormaaj@×××××.com> |
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> On Thursday, May 24, 2012 06:33:53 AM Duncan wrote: |
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> > Dan Douglas posted on Thu, 24 May 2012 01:04:48 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> > > On Thursday, May 24, 2012 07:56:58 AM Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > >> On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:14:53 -0500 |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Dan Douglas <ormaaj@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > >> > If not I will be leaving Gentoo for Funtoo in the near future, |
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> though |
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> > >> > there are disadvantages to doing this I don't look forward to |
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> dealing |
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> > >> > with. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> Most of us will probably be doing that :P. |
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> > > |
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> > > Eh sorry that wasn't meant to be antagonistic. I'll still have Gentoo |
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> > > boxen to deal with. I just need to be able to use git on the tree (even |
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> > > without the full history is perfectly fine) to ease the difficulty of |
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> > > local overlay management. Glad to hear that will be possible, or at |
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> > > least somewhat easier. |
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> > FWIW, I as a user would sure like a git-based tree. Doing git |
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> whatchanged |
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> > searches on individual files and being able to track my last checkout and |
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> > roll back to it, or to a point between it and current HEAD, are extremely |
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> > useful. I haven't thought of it much until now, but I think maintaining |
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> > overlays as simple branches would be great, as well. |
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> I don't think doing a branch of the entire tree is a good idea (well |
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> maybe...). I was thinking more along the lines of subtree merges into a |
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> local |
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> overlay, or perhaps submodules. To do that currently (I think) would |
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> require |
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> taking the rsync tree and putting that into a repo, and trying to keep it |
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> synchronized. Plus in the process you lose all correspondance with upstream |
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> commits so that logs and diffs become meaningless. |
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> -- |
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> Dan Douglas |
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Vítor Brandão (noisebleed) |