On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 10:13:25PM +0200, clime wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 20:05, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I'm a bit late to the party, but here's my 2¢. > > > > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 05:05:02PM +0200, Tomas Tomecek wrote: > > > In the packit project, we work in source-git repositories. These are > > > pretty much upstream repositories combined with Fedora downstream > > > packaging files. > > > > I think source-git would be an interesting avenue to explore... > > There's some hairy issues to figure out wrt. to rebasing of > > downstream-only patches, but if that is solved, there would be great > > potential to make certain styles of packaging much nicer. > > > > For more complicated projects, rebasing of patches would require some > > git wizardry, but we'd reap the benefit of how good git is with > > rebasing patches. From the workflows people described, it is clear > > that many of us are doing some variant of a custom git branch to make > > rebasing easier, building custom tooling around that. > > > > > Would there be an interest within the community, as opt-in, to have > > > such source-git repositories created for respective dist-git > > > repositories? The idea is that you would work in the source-git repo > > > and then let packit handle synchronization with a respective dist-git > > > repo. > > > > I agree with what Miro and others said about this: this brings a lot > > of complication. I expect requirement to have synchronization both > > ways is going to be a constant source of problems. We lose the > > invariant that dist-git is the canonical source of truth. (Automatic > > synchro is OK if it's just one way, but here it clearly needs to be > > both ways because some maintainers would modify source-git and other > > maintainers would modify dist-git.) > > > > IMO, source-git as a third repo in between the project and dist-git is > > not useful. Instead, it would make sense when integrated with dist-git. > > I am curious. Zbyszek, what do you mean by "integrated with dist-git", here? Clone the upstream repo, add a fedora-specific branch, in that branch add the .spec file and whatever else we now carry in dist-git. I.e. use a single repo for both the source and the packaging in native git form. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
