On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Er, you can't be seriously suggesting we will drop repoman checks with >> the migration to git? I don't see how that would benefit anyone. >> > > Interesting point. One thing to keep in mind with git is that commits > don't affect the "central repository." Pushes are what impacts the > repository. > > If I spend six months working on a bunch of coordinated package > changes, nobody will see a thing until I push those commits and 500 > ebuilds all change atomically (not that I'm suggesting that lack of > communication is to be encouraged). A repoman check on a commit may > not reflect its impact six months later when it actually hits the main > tree.
... if you're squashing 6 months of work into a single commit before pushing. I don't think we want to do that, do we? Maybe bisecting isn't particularly interesting for the portage tree.
