On 03/05/2014 11:18 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 05/03/2014 21:52, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : >> William Harrington wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Armin K. wrote: >>> >>>> Well, I guess if we decide to migrate to git, we'll have some sort of >>>> online browser like cgit or gitweb >>>> >>>> For example, freedesktop.org uses cgit, here's the mesa repository. >>>> >>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/ >>>> >>>> Just click on any of the commits below and you can easily see what's >>>> changed. >>>> >>>> I expect that lfs-book and blfs-book mailing lists should still be >>>> there, although mail format might be different than the current one. >>> >>> I moved from gitweb to cgit, and I'm liking cgit a lot. Gitweb >>> shouldn't be used. >>> >>> Also, it's much easier to view what is going on with cgit, than gitweb. >>> >>> The only problem is that a test repo needs to be created if the LFS >>> project goes to git. >>> >>> The devs will need to take some time to learn about git and making >>> sure they know how to use it properly. >> >> I certainly agree. >> >>> When we moved to git with CLFS, a guide was created for devs to read. >>> >>> http://trac.cross-lfs.org/wiki/Basic%20Git%20Usage >> >> Yes, we would need to update the developers guide. >> >> I've gone through a similar tutorial and have an O'Reilly book on git, >> but my concern is how to create and maintain the remote server. I know >> Armin is working on that. >> >>> Some things have changed long ago when that was created, but it'll help. >>> >>> As far as getting the initial git repository going and all of that, >>> you've done most of the work. It's all about deploying it now if the >>> community decides to go with git. >>> >>> There has to be a freeze to take the time to migrate svn to git, it >>> does take time because svn repo has been around for 10 years or so. >>> It'll take 12 hours or so for each repo (as you stated on your system). >> >> First commit for LFS was December 29, 2000. >> First commit for BLFS was May 29, 2002, but that was a conversion from CVS. >> >> -- Bruce >> > I already converted jhalfs, blfs to git using git svn. This is a very long > process (to be done once fortunately), since all the commits are checked out > one by one, and even replayed in the case of branching and merging! > > For BLFS, it takes slightly more than 12 h, jhalfs takes shorter (~3 h). > Haven't tried lfs. > > Pierre > >
BLFS took 9 hours, LFS took a bit more. I fall asleep so I can't really say how long. I have both repositories exposed via git and cgit on my machine and everything seems to be okay for now. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
