On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 12:20:27 +0100
Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Dne 7.12.2015 v 11:56 Kalev Lember napsal(a):
> > On 12/07/2015 11:42 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:  
> >> Can somebody explain me why Rawhide comps are called F24? Trying
> >> to use "git blame" and surprisingly (or not that much), almost
> >> every line was created by Kevin Fenzi. Why we are using git if we
> >> break the history this way? How can I find what was reason to add
> >> something, unless I really want to dig through history of every
> >> comps file.
> >>
> >> A would appreciate if the comps-f24.xml.in could be renamed to
> >> comps-rawhide.xml.in to keep the history.  
> > Another way might be to use git branches instead of separate files:
> > have 'master' branch for rawhide, 'f23' for Fedora 23 etc and use
> > the same file name (comps.xml.in) in all the branches. That would
> > be analogous to the way the packages git is set up.
> >
> > This would make it much easier to put the same change to different
> > branches (just use 'git cherry-pick', instead of having to do the
> > same change several times in different files as is now) and would
> > make it easier to use 'git blame' for the history.
> >  
> 
> Even better. I just mildly remember this was already proposed and
> rejected, can't find where and why :/

I think it was just setup this way long ago and it's effort to change
it. 

If there's people willing to do the work, I personally have no
objection. Might be good to run past the releng list and fesco tho. 

kevin

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