On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 10:54:15AM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > PS: We aren't switching version control systems as far as I'm aware. > Robin is just doing research into moving to git. The whole point of his > inquiry is 'is anyone using $header in a manner than cannot be ported to > using $blobid$'. > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44750
That thread was a followup to this previous thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44298 Wherein I discussed what Gentoo would need out of Git that wasn't yet fully polished in Git (as followup research to see if Gentoo _were_ switching to Git, what would happen). The second thread came about because somebody else posted a partial prototype, that Linus Torvalds then dissected for why it wouldn't work with Git. Torvalds notes that if you are taking the file out of the repository, it should be done with 'git export' adding revisions during that process, but this means that the developers and users get different content :-(. As a useful side, our Manifest files already contain the SHA1 of the ebuilds, and those are in fact the Git BlobIds, so we do have them recorded there, but the Manifest gets regenerated, so it's easy to lose them. Linus's response on the style of problem you have in copying files over to your overlay, is that your overlay should be a Git branch of the original tree. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Council Member E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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