Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 09:52:50 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r551373 - in head/dns: . knot3 knot3/files Message-ID: <20201006095250.GA52176@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20201006085953.oiasw2z7jshtbzbp@ivaldir.net> References: <202010041018.094AI0o8005671@repo.freebsd.org> <20201004102926.GA93206@FreeBSD.org> <20201004103616.GY86683@fc.opsec.eu> <20201004104253.GA10822@FreeBSD.org> <20201005080039.hyfxmx6stfjbazy3@aching.in.mat.cc> <20201005080550.GB86683@fc.opsec.eu> <20201006085953.oiasw2z7jshtbzbp@ivaldir.net>
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:59:53AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 10:05:50AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > > 2) i vaguely remember that with the migration to git, > > > > > > > > Ports cannot be migrated to Git for various reasons. Even if they > > > > could, we're currently using Subversion. > > > > > > For the record, ports will be moving to Git within three to six months, > > > either before 2021Q1 or if time is too short, 2021Q2. > > > > Can the repo-copy procedure be seen in the git repo or is > > the repo-copy lost after the migration ? > > Repo copy is guessed after the migration = pretty much fucked up: unreliable, CPU-intensive, and guessed wrongly for anything but very simple cases*. Either Git must be fixed and learn how to track renames, or left where it belongs instead of trying to replace mature, full-featured solutions such as Subversion. Git is actually the worst in this regard, e.g. in Bazaar it allegedly works even without requiring explicit move command**. So, again: Git is rather poor choice for anything, but particularly bad for the FreeBSD Ports Collection. ./danfe *) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29822823/how-does-git-know-that-file-was-renamed **) https://how-bazaar.blogspot.com/2008/07/bazaar-has-model-right.html
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