Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Thu May 27 00:34:31 -0400 2010: > errr. I'm confused. what's the point of git if were using svn?
Well, the patch generation step requires knowledge of what the original source tree looked like. Previously this was done by extracting and patching second pristine copy and then doing a recursive diff between the two trees. This got broken at some point and was a pain to fix. It was easier (and better, imo) to integrate git into the extract and patch steps than it was to fix the old method. Using git may offer other benefits too, if the maintainer has need/desier of these capabilities and a willingness to learn more git. For people that don't care about it, it'll hopefully be nothing more than extra output during the build process. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
