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From: gokturk@××××××××××.edu
To: devmanual@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@××××××××××.edu>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 08/21] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the text on adding binary files to the tree #558642
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:02:32
Message-Id: 1454547469-22487-9-git-send-email-gokturk@binghamton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 00/21] devmanual: update the docs for post git-migration by gokturk@binghamton.edu
1 From: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@××××××××××.edu>
2
3 Remove the paragraph about adding binary files to CVS.
4 Replace the instances of CVS with git.
5
6 Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558642
7 Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@××××××××××.edu>
8 ---
9 ebuild-maintenance/text.xml | 19 +++----------------
10 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
11
12 diff --git a/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml b/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
13 index ac68dcd..3cefdc2 100644
14 --- a/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
15 +++ b/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
16 @@ -42,22 +42,9 @@ above 20KB) which should be distributed as tarballs via the
17 <uri link="::general-concepts/mirrors/#suitable-download-hosts">Gentoo mirror system</uri>
18 so that people do not waste excessive amounts of bandwidth and hard drive
19 space. Also, you should not add binary (non-ASCII) files to the
20 -Portage CVS tree. If you need to do this in another CVS tree, for
21 -example, if you need to add a small PNG graphic for whatever reason,
22 -be sure to add it to CVS by using the <c>-kb</c> option, like so:
23 -</p>
24 -
25 -<pre caption="Adding binary files to CVS">
26 -# <i>cvs add -kb myphoto.png</i>
27 -</pre>
28 -
29 -<p>
30 -The <c>-kb</c> option tells CVS that <path>myphoto.png</path> is a binary
31 -file and should be treated specially. For example, merging the
32 -differences between two different versions of this file should not be
33 -allowed to happen, for obvious reasons. Also, speaking of merging
34 +git tree. Also, speaking of merging
35 changes, any patches you add to Portage should generally <e>not</e> be
36 -compressed. This will allow CVS to merge changes and correctly inform
37 +compressed. This will allow git to merge changes and correctly inform
38 developers of conflicts.
39 </p>
40
41 @@ -149,7 +136,7 @@ simply, <path>1.0-gentoo.diff</path>. Also note that the
42 <path>gentoo</path> extension informs people that this patch was created
43 by us, the Gentoo Linux developers, rather than having been grabbed from a
44 mailing list or somewhere else. Again, you should not compress these
45 -patches because CVS does not play well with binary files.
46 +patches.
47 </p>
48
49 <p>
50 --
51 2.4.10