On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dne 24.3.2018 v 06:59 Christopher napsal(a): >> Can we stop saying "dist-git" in our docs? Nobody knows what that is. >> The service at https://src.fedoraproject.org is clearly branded as "Fedora Package Sources". > > BTW dist-git is (for some time) documented quite well: > https://github.com/release-engineering/dist-git > > And AFAIK the Pagure is frontend to "just" that git part. It does not handle lookaside cache at all. I think that's kind of Christopher's point. We use "dist-git" pervasively to refer to our package repositories, but from a packager's perspective they are more or less just normal git repositories. I can interact with them using normal git commands. The only thing that makes these "dist-git" repositories special is the existence of the lookaside cache, but I don't know that this is enough to motivate using an entirely separate term to describe the repositories. Looking at the dist-git README further reinforces this impression. The first sentence says: "DistGit (Distributed Git) is Git with additional data storage". My initial reaction to that is "so, it is basically just git". My second reaction is "why does additional data storage somehow make git (a distributed version control system) even _more_ distributed?". The rest of the README goes onto describe technical details about dist-git and then includes a "user's guide", which is helpful... if you are a user trying to set up infrastructure. It's not very relevant to a packager trying to learn their way around things. Ben Rosser _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
