Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-25 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > [2] Note that this IMO implies cdebconf also gets dropped from the master > PO files and thus gets translation handling like any regular Debian > package. That can be done. At least from my l10n POV. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 September 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > > - partman components are very tightly coupled > > Very frequently changes, such as adding ext4 support, requires > > making related changes to multiple components. Being able to do so in > > a singl

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-24 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): (only a few comments here and there) > - partman components are very tightly coupled > Very frequently changes, such as adding ext4 support, requires making > related changes to multiple components. Being able to do so in a single > branch in a single

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-24 Thread Frans Pop
Let me start with a request to other team members: PLEASE join this discussion. Think about how *you* use the repository; consider whether you are confortable with git or not; think about the issues raised both by Joey and me; and *give your opinion*. I hate the fact that this looks to be turni

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > crazy > butt ugly > insane > reeks > can't be bothered to do a proper migration Well, I think we know how you feel about this. But, the presence of the above words makes it much more difficult to write a friendly, reasoned, objective, non-defensive reply. > Given the team meeti

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-21 Thread Frans Pop
Given the team meeting this evening I guess this is my last chance to comment. The main reason I haven't so far is that I find myself simply caring less and less, but well. I really have only one argument against the switch to git: the splitting of the repository into multiple separate reposito

Re: debmirror (was: d-i git repo: sample conversion)

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 10:06 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > One issue I had with debmirror in the past (with nobody to complain > > to ;-)) > > Hmmm? Never heard of the BTS? ;-) Fair point ;-) I just never quite got round to it when there seemed to

Re: debmirror (was: d-i git repo: sample conversion)

2009-09-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > One issue I had with debmirror in the past (with nobody to complain > to ;-)) Hmmm? Never heard of the BTS? ;-) > was that I wanted a partial mirror of main+contrib of testing > but just main/debian-installer of sid. I wanted this so that I can

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 23:51 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > [1] Which now supports mirroring everything needed to to create CD > images using debian-cd, including (released) D-I images and the "docs" > and "tools" directories :-) One issue I had with debmirror in the past (with nobody to complain to ;-)

Re: debmirror (was: d-i git repo: sample conversion)

2009-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Lee Winter wrote: > > [1] Which now supports mirroring everything needed to to create CD > > images using debian-cd, including (released) D-I images and the > > "docs" and "tools" directories :-) > > Would you please describe what is left that the new version of > debm

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-07 Thread Lee Winter
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Frans Pop wrote: ... > ... debmirror[1] ... ... > [1] Which now supports mirroring everything needed to to create CD images >using debian-cd, including (released) D-I images and the "docs" and >"tools" directories :-) Would you please describe what is left

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 September 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Have you made some progress here? During the team meeting today, there > is a rough consensus that we should move on but all of us agreed that > you could have interesting comments and, even if they aren't as > polished as you would like to, i

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > > We discussed switching to git at DebConf, and came up with a compromise > > plan that seemed reasonable to all in attendance[1]: Split each d-i > > package into its own git repository[2], but leave the manual[3] and > > packages/po[4] in svn. Investigate

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-08-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 13 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > We discussed switching to git at DebConf, and came up with a compromise > plan that seemed reasonable to all in attendance[1]: Split each d-i > package into its own git repository[2], but leave the manual[3] and > packages/po[4] in svn. Investigate usi

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-08-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Joey Hess wrote: > Remove $Id$ keywords from all files that have them; git doesn't > support that. (Do after conversion) git supports $Id$; you just have to explicitly request it, as you do with svn (using svn:keywords). Quoting the gitattributes(5) manpage: > ident > When the att

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-08-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:49:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > We discussed switching to git at DebConf, and came up with a compromise > plan that seemed reasonable to all in attendance[1]: Split each d-i > package into its own git repository[2], but leave the manual[3] and > packages/po[4] in svn. I

d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-08-12 Thread Joey Hess
We discussed switching to git at DebConf, and came up with a compromise plan that seemed reasonable to all in attendance[1]: Split each d-i package into its own git repository[2], but leave the manual[3] and packages/po[4] in svn. Investigate using submodules[6] and/or mr to tie the git repositorie