Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 08/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the text on adding binary files to the tree #558642

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:00:31 +0100 Patrice Clement wrote:
> Sunday 24 Jan 2016 03:46:02, Gokturk Yuksek wrote :
> > Remove the paragraph about adding binary files to CVS.
> > Replace the instances of CVS with git.
> >
> > X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558642
> > Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@××××××××××.edu>
> > ---
> >  ebuild-maintenance/text.xml | 19 +++----------------
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml b/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
> > index ac68dcd..10709ea 100644
> > --- a/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
> > +++ b/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
> > @@ -42,22 +42,9 @@ above 20KB) which should be distributed as tarballs via the
> >  <uri link="::general-concepts/mirrors/#suitable-download-hosts">Gentoo mirror system</uri>
> >  so that people do not waste excessive amounts of bandwidth and hard drive
> >  space. Also, you should not add binary (non-ASCII) files to the
> > -Portage CVS tree. If you need to do this in another CVS tree, for
> > -example, if you need to add a small PNG graphic for whatever reason,
> > -be sure to add it to CVS by using the <c>-kb</c> option, like so:
> > -</p>
> > -
> > -<pre caption="Adding binary files to CVS">
> > -# <i>cvs add -kb myphoto.png</i>
> > -</pre>
> > -
> > -<p>
> > -The <c>-kb</c> option tells CVS that <path>myphoto.png</path> is a binary
> > -file and should be treated specially.  For example, merging the
> > -differences between two different versions of this file should not be
> > -allowed to happen, for obvious reasons.  Also, speaking of merging
> > +git tree. Also, speaking of merging
> >  changes, any patches you add to Portage should generally <e>not</e> be
> > -compressed.  This will allow CVS to merge changes and correctly inform
> > +compressed.  This will allow git to merge changes and correctly inform
> >  developers of conflicts.
> >  </p>
> >
> > @@ -149,7 +136,7 @@ simply, <path>1.0-gentoo.diff</path>.  Also note that the
> >  <path>gentoo</path> extension informs people that this patch was created
> >  by us, the Gentoo Linux developers, rather than having been grabbed from a
> >  mailing list or somewhere else. Again, you should not compress these
> > -patches because CVS does not play well with binary files.
> > +patches because git does not play well with binary files.
> >  </p>
> >
> >  <p>
> > --
> > 2.4.10
> >
> >
>
> "Again you should not compress these patches because git does not play well
> binary files".
>
> I'm not sure this statement still holds true with git. Does it?

What about repoman checks? Will it still yell at >20 kB patches?

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko