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On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:45:16 +0200 |
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"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> > And yes, it is *very* unlikely that someone uses a slotted live |
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> > ebuild with two branches being meaningful and managed in the same |
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> > repo. Even if such thing exists, it is broken anyway because you |
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> > can't say that re-fetching the branches back and forth is a correct |
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> > solution. And it breaks existing tools anyway. |
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> This is done large-scale for all KDE ebuilds (in the KDE overlay) to |
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> support master and KDE/4.x stable branch. Most use git, so no |
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> problem; some (still) use subversion but will be migrated upstream |
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> soon(?). |
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> Other examples are libreoffice (main tree, git) and cups (main tree, |
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> subversion). |
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I guess that's a pretty comprehensive "we need to do this properly" |
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then. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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