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Hi, |
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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>: |
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> A bunch of Gentoo devs and git experts had a great discussion about |
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> sorting out some of the remaining major issues blocking Gentoo's git |
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> conversion at the GSoC mentor summit. We posted notes online, so take |
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> a look if you're interested [1]. The main things we talked about were |
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> commit signing and repository layout, but a number of other blockers |
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> and related issues came up. |
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That is great news, I hope there is enough momentum to push the |
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migration over the edge. So on the technical side enough potential is |
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gathered, but there are two fields I still worry about: |
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*) Commit policies, especially repoman. Is someone attached to this |
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work? I know, we need to set a policy/repo layout first before talking |
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about any implementation. |
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*) Documentation and user education. My biggest concern, because |
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man-power there is in desperate need there. With openrc nearly |
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everything is ready except the handbooks, because nightmorph is on its |
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own. And as I have seen a big failure in migrating from CVS to Bazaar |
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with the GNU Emacs project (which has settled by now), I hope we can |
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gather enough hand-holding here. GNU Emacs had no good short |
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introduction for newbies on distributed SCM and so scared away some |
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developers in the beginning. |
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As my time is limited as everyone else's, maybe we can gather a team of |
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people that track down all places that need changing and prepare |
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patches that can be applied as soon as Git goes live. Especially a |
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two-page guide on what changes in workflow and best-practices with Git |
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would be great. My experience with Git is shallow (I use Bazaar most |
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of the time), so some more brain-power is definitely needed here. |
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> On a related note, based on reading about the PostgreSQL git |
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> migration [2], I gave the fromcvs [3] tool a try. My main motivation |
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> was that it does incremental updates, so we don't need to do a full |
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> conversion from scratch every time we want a current git repo from |
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> CVS. |
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I was thinking the same when I read the article... |
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V-Li |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |
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