Re: Fedora 34 Change: GitRepos-master-to-main (Self-Contained Change)

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 05:52:16PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> Yes, it cannot encode everything but it can at least help. Is there any
> documentation about the flatpak work in Fedora? The wiki as all the
> other information that I find on Google with "flatpak Fedora" only focus
> on how to use them, for example https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flatpak
> I think it is safe to assume that anyone getting involved to this will
> at some point learn what is "stable" in the "stable" branch. Then it
> will be easier to remember than "main" if "main" means something else in
> Fedora RPM packaging.

I'm not sure where docs are. I think only a few people build flatpaks. 

> > > > rawhide_its_the_branch_for_the_development_version_of_fedora_called_rawhide
> > > 
> > > It is fair to assume that someone who needs to use this already knows
> > > what rawhide is. Otherwise they did not have any use for the branch,
> > > even if it is called "main", so this long explanation does not make
> > > sense, there.
> > 
> > Well, a new packager may well assume rawhide is main if they are used to
> > main being the main development branch... 
> 
> Might be. But if they checkout the repo and get a "rawhide" branch, they
> should quickly realize that "rawhide" is the branch for "rawhide"
> instead of looking for a main branch for rawhide.

Sure, unless it's a new empty repo. ;( 
 
> > > > I suppose it's ok to make 'rawhide' a symref to main, or 'stable' in the
> > > > flatpak case... 
> > > 
> > > "main" as a symref might help people that are used to using main.
> > > Assuming that the symrefs are not visible, it makes more sense to use
> > > the descriptive names for the branches such as rawhide/stable. Then they
> > 
> > Your message seems to have gotten cut off here? :( 
> > 
> > symrefs appear just like any other ref... so adding one does mean that
> > there's now more choices, just 2 of them are exactly the same.
> 
> Uh, I guess undo killed this... I mean to also write that then the
> "rawhide" branch would also appear as such in the shell prompt.

Yeah. 

kevin

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