Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Saturday, August 29, 2015 6:13:30 PM Dale wrote:
> Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 29, 2015 10:48:16 AM Dale wrote:
> >> Todd Goodman wrote:
> >>> * Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> [150828 18:35]:
> >>>> 150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
> >>>>> To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
> >>>>> and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
> >>>>> Also, the whole copy-on-write concept and content-hashing concept.
> >>>>> I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat
> >>>>> through a  1 hr talk that focused mostly on the data model.
> >>>>> Once you understand the data model, you understand everything.
> >>>>> That doesn't take a lot of time.  It does take a moderate amount of
time
> >>>>> learning the right things.  They're not found in the manpages.
> >>>>> Like I said, beautiful design, horrible interface.
> >>>> So is there a Gentoo doc -- Wiki, presumably --
> >>>> explaining to users -- users, not dev's or Git addicts --
> >>>> the essentials of Git, so that they can readily update using it ?
> >>>> If so, I'm willing to see if I can use it ;
> >>>> if not, I would suggest it sb a top priority for dev's to write.
> >>> You don't *need* to know anything about git to update using it.
> >>>
> >>> Just change your /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf as Rich outlined
> >>> (and move away your rsync'd /usr/portage or wherever your portage tree
> >>> goes.)
> >>>
> >>> Then when you emerge --sync (or emaint -A sync, etc.) it will sync via
> >>> git and emerge will work as always.
> >>>
> >>> Now if you want to do more or just want to learn more about git then
> >>> that's different.
> >>>
> >>> Todd
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> I think what we are talking about is viewing things like the changelogs
> >> and such, which are currently not synced with the tree.  Or did we
> >> change to some other topic and I missed it?  I tracked back to Alan
> >> Mackenzie's split of this thread
> >> .
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> :-)  :-)
> >>
> > It's probably easier to do this:
> >
> > # cd /usr/portage
> > # rm -r *
> > # git clone <repo-uri> .
> >
> > Then do the repos.conf changes. That way you don't have to worry about
portage 
> > doing a shallow clone. If you already did it then just unshallow it as
Rich 
> > pointed. Then to view the logs just:
> >
> > #cd /usr/portage/cat/pkg
> > #git log .
> >
> > Then 'git show <first few digits of commit hash>' to view a commit diff. You
can 
> > use git use dev-vcs/tig if you find it easier though I thought it was
pretty 
> > useless so it only lasted about 10 secs. in my system.
> >
> > So basicly the only change is that instead of:
> >
> > # less ChangeLog (or whatever you use to read logs)
> >
> > You'll do:
> >
> > # git log .
> >
> >
>
>
> Actually, I use eix-sync to sync my tree.  However I do it, I want it
> done within the usual setup and commands.  Given the bumps we've already
> seen, I'm not wanting to change that just yet.  Let the devs work out
> some of the kinks first.

I use eix-sync too, it just calls emerge --sync so it's the same. I'm not in a 
hurry to switch the main tree to git either. If they bring change logs to 
rsync I'll stick with it as long as it's supported. Git will just be more 
wasteful of disk space and has other potential problems that rsync doesn't. I 
think it's great of version control but not so much for this.

> Oh, I use Kwrite to read the changelogs.  If I'm stuck in a console,
> nano, head or cat works.  Well, it did in the past anyway.  May not now tho.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

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Fernando Rodriguez