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From: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@××××××××××.edu>
To: devmanual@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 08/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the text on adding binary files to the tree #558642
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 08:51:10
Message-Id: 1453625173-9505-9-git-send-email-gokturk@binghamton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 00/19] devmanual: update the docs for post git-migration by Gokturk Yuksek
1 Remove the paragraph about adding binary files to CVS.
2 Replace the instances of CVS with git.
3
4 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558642
5 Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@××××××××××.edu>
6 ---
7 ebuild-maintenance/text.xml | 19 +++----------------
8 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
9
10 diff --git a/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml b/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
11 index ac68dcd..10709ea 100644
12 --- a/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
13 +++ b/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
14 @@ -42,22 +42,9 @@ above 20KB) which should be distributed as tarballs via the
15 <uri link="::general-concepts/mirrors/#suitable-download-hosts">Gentoo mirror system</uri>
16 so that people do not waste excessive amounts of bandwidth and hard drive
17 space. Also, you should not add binary (non-ASCII) files to the
18 -Portage CVS tree. If you need to do this in another CVS tree, for
19 -example, if you need to add a small PNG graphic for whatever reason,
20 -be sure to add it to CVS by using the <c>-kb</c> option, like so:
21 -</p>
22 -
23 -<pre caption="Adding binary files to CVS">
24 -# <i>cvs add -kb myphoto.png</i>
25 -</pre>
26 -
27 -<p>
28 -The <c>-kb</c> option tells CVS that <path>myphoto.png</path> is a binary
29 -file and should be treated specially. For example, merging the
30 -differences between two different versions of this file should not be
31 -allowed to happen, for obvious reasons. Also, speaking of merging
32 +git tree. Also, speaking of merging
33 changes, any patches you add to Portage should generally <e>not</e> be
34 -compressed. This will allow CVS to merge changes and correctly inform
35 +compressed. This will allow git to merge changes and correctly inform
36 developers of conflicts.
37 </p>
38
39 @@ -149,7 +136,7 @@ simply, <path>1.0-gentoo.diff</path>. Also note that the
40 <path>gentoo</path> extension informs people that this patch was created
41 by us, the Gentoo Linux developers, rather than having been grabbed from a
42 mailing list or somewhere else. Again, you should not compress these
43 -patches because CVS does not play well with binary files.
44 +patches because git does not play well with binary files.
45 </p>
46
47 <p>
48 --
49 2.4.10

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