Gentoo Archives: gentoo-scm

From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] repoman patch for git support (from drobbins)
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:53:59
Message-Id: 20081116045357.GA23210@comet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] repoman patch for git support (from drobbins) by Mike Auty
1 On 23:07 Sat 15 Nov , Mike Auty wrote:
2 > The idea was to test an as-close-to-the-real-thing version of git
3 > portage as possible. Would repoman commit to the local repository and
4 > then push back to the main tree, or would repoman do the push to the
5 > main tree directly?
6 >
7 > I could clone my clone to do local testing, but I thought the idea would
8 > be to try out some test/real commits to a large remote copy of the tree,
9 > and see how all the patches hold up?
10
11 The patch in repoman just commits locally, it does not push. I suppose
12 an operation or option could be added that treats that as if it were a
13 single combined step, but I definitely do not want that as the only
14 choice.
15
16 There's still a lot of unresolved questions about the precise repository
17 setup and work flow, so simulating it isn't entirely possible yet.
18
19 One major problem with repoman+git is that a major feature of git is
20 fast commits, but repoman is pretty slow (try a scan in
21 x11-base/xorg-server). Anyone got a good idea for how to deal with this?
22
23 --
24 Thanks,
25 Donnie
26
27 Donnie Berkholz
28 Developer, Gentoo Linux
29 Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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