Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:18:32 +0000 (UTC) From: Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official git export Message-ID: <slrnj5lc58.jd1.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> References: <35765857-1314243257-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-329610575-@b2.c15.bise7.blackberry> <CAJ-Vmo=v0UkQarauKrvWKdjMTC81BwXmyhU__rnaQeL3z45L-g@mail.gmail.com> <slrnj5ddgp.4ck.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <CAMBSHm8uX45k0M4on=5Cpw_CKoddA=4oJSNXpH7dGPt=Vy2HOw@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108261000040.48200@fledge.watson.org>
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Hi Robert Watson! On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:06:32 +0100 (BST); Robert Watson wrote about 'Official git export (was: Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve)': > One way to do this is to make "more official" our output if git exports of the > repository -- something that many other Subversion-based projects do: > Chromium, clang/LLVM, Tor, etc. Folk like Ulrich have been doing this on a > casual basis for some time, but I think we need to formalise this and provide > end-user documentation on how to use git to track FreeBSD, contribute patches, > etc. There are a number of hitches people have to know about: the potential > impact of obliteration, how to handle $FreeBSD$ correctly for system call > additions, and so on. Simply writing them down and having an official > git.FreeBSD.org (or even gitsvn.FreeBSD.org) would go a long way. Is it only the git what is considered? Mercurial (hg) has a plugin for $Id$ conversion and is popular enough, too. > I have to admit I've always preferred Perforce to git, simply because it > strikes me as a more structured approach, partial checkouts (but especially > composition of different depot pieces in a single checkout to create hybrid > trees), etc. But git is widely used, and quite effectively used, by large > communities. We need to support those communities better. I haven't worked with Perforce, do you mean I could checkout at once several directories e.g. sbin/ipfw and sys/netinet/ipfw in my working copy? If so, sounds good. May be FreeBSD should really write it's own VCS, just as Git was modelled after proprietary BitKeeper?.. -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight@mail.ru [Anti-Greenpeace][Sober FreeBSD zealot][http://nuclight.livejournal.com]
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