On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> wrote: > [Piotr Ożarowski, 2008-12-23 13:37] >> unfortunately I use Git only outside Debian, so I don't know about >> issues git-buildpackage might have. I know it doesn't have >> mergeWithUpstream but it's written in Python, so we can implement this. >> The problem is (FWIK) that it's better to use Git with upstream sources >> (with tools like pristine-tar)... anyway, I vote for Git, but I'm open >> to alternative suggestions. > > update: I vote for status quo (svn, svn-buildpackage, mergeWithUpstream) > for now - at least until all top contributors will have decent internet > connection or we'll work out some kind of remote upstream branches > schema so that one could choose what to download (and a script to > download all repositories (packages) within the team)
Agree. We talked with Sandro on IRC, the problem is in a bad internet connection --- it takes ~40min to download 10MB -- then of course every MB matters. For me it takes just couple seconds, so it doesn't really matter if I am downloading tarball+debian dir separately, or together in a git repo. I just assumed that everyone has a decent internet connection these days, and I was wrong. :) Ondrej