From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 28 21:18:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1203106564A for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:18:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arch@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DBBC8FC13 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qxmke-0008TC-SC for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:18:44 +0200 Received: from 208.88.188.90.adsl.tomsknet.ru ([90.188.88.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:18:44 +0200 Received: from vadim_nuclight by 208.88.188.90.adsl.tomsknet.ru with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:18:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org From: Vadim Goncharov Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Nuclear Lightning @ Tomsk, TPU AVTF Hostel Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <35765857-1314243257-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-329610575-@b2.c15.bise7.blackberry> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.88.188.90.adsl.tomsknet.ru X-Comment-To: Robert Watson User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Official git export X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:18:47 -0000 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]