Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've been working trying to understand Git a little better and trying to > evaluate whether it is appropriate for LFS to migrate. > > What I've done is to copy the alfs repository to anduin and work with > that copy. > git clone git://git.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs.git > > Afte

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-10 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 10/03/2014 18:47, Kevin Lyda a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Pierre, I'm not familiar with quilt. Can you explain? > > It's a tool to ease working on branches and to generate patch sets in svn. > > One thing Pierre doesn't mention is using quilt to generate

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-10 Thread Kevin Lyda
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre, I'm not familiar with quilt. Can you explain? It's a tool to ease working on branches and to generate patch sets in svn. One thing Pierre doesn't mention is using quilt to generate patches that can then be consumed upstream. I don't

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > Just a few more notes about my experience about subversion and git > (more limited for the latter): > - about branching and merging: I created a branch with subversion > for the BLFS part of jhalfs. After moving directories around, I couldnot > merge anymore from the trun

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-10 Thread Kevin Lyda
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Q: Hmm. OK. And how do I get rid of my branch? > A: git branch -d my_branch Only if the commit that branch points to is in another branch/tag. To delete it if it would be unreferenced: git branch -D my_branch > Q: OK. And how do I g

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-10 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 10/03/2014 00:19, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > I've been working trying to understand Git a little better and trying to > evaluate whether it is appropriate for LFS to migrate. > > What I've done is to copy the alfs repository to anduin and work with > that copy. > > Note to Pierre: nothing has been

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 9, 2014, at 9:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Well there is a difference between LFS and BLFS. Although there are > several devs authorized to commit to LFS, in the last cycle only Matt > and I did so. BLFS had seven committers in the same cycle. Generally > the only collisions I see are in

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I've been working trying to understand Git a little better and >> trying to >> evaluate whether it is appropriate for LFS to migrate. >> > > Here is an article which presents why a person should move to GIT. > > http:

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 9, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've been working trying to understand Git a little better and > trying to > evaluate whether it is appropriate for LFS to migrate. > Here is an article which presents why a person should move to GIT. http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/why-you-shoul

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread Kevin Lyda
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Kevin Lyda wrote: > Sites like github, bitbucket, code.google.com or gitorious all offer > free hosting and nice webui's for people to more easily provide > patches. It eases the git learning curve for people, it reduces > bandwidth usage on your server and it low

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread Kevin Lyda
Sites like github, bitbucket, code.google.com or gitorious all offer free hosting and nice webui's for people to more easily provide patches. It eases the git learning curve for people, it reduces bandwidth usage on your server and it lowers the bar to participation. Running your own git server is

[lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been working trying to understand Git a little better and trying to evaluate whether it is appropriate for LFS to migrate. What I've done is to copy the alfs repository to anduin and work with that copy. Note to Pierre: nothing has been changed on the lfs server. I had to reorganize the r