On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 11:59 +0000, Joe Orton wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:06:02PM -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote: > > I don't personally see the need for the distributedness when it comes to > > Fedora packaging stuff. But perhaps I'm missing something. > > I agree, the idea of using a distributed SCM based around > changeset-versioning *for /cvs/dist* seems completely nuts. I think you're missing something. The goal isn't to just switch the existing CVS repositories to something other than CVS. It's to do that, and combine them into a single repo. /cvs/dist and /cvs/extras will be gone. You'll have a unified repo. > For /cvs/dist I don't care about off-line access at all, ever. CVS is > off-line enough for me. You can't do anything less off-line than what > we have now without having a mirror of the tarball cache, and that > probably isn't going to fit on your laptop, so stop flogging that horse. You might not care about it, but others do. > I also don't care ever about making local private branches. Number of > times I have wanted a private branch in 6 years of doing packaging work > with CVS? Zero. So I don't want to have to be doing a two-command > "commit locally, push remotely" dance. That's just a waste of time and > sanity. Branching and merging with hg/git is trivial. Branching in CVS and merging it back to HEAD makes me want to break all my fingers and destroy my computer. I used to have your same view. Then I tried stuff and now I love it. As for the two-command thing, just make an alias if it's a really big deal. "hg ci" -> hg commit; hg push. Or something like that. > I also never ever want to check out the whole /cvs/dist repository, nor > be pulling changes for the whole repos to update the small parts I have > checked out. I only care about 20-30 packages in the whole tree. But I > do care about having those small parts of the tree checked out quickly > and easily in multiple places. That's really useful and I depend on > that regularly. You won't have to checkout the whole repository. Every package is it's own repo (at least with the hg test). Only checkout the packages you care about. josh -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
