On Feb 1, 2008 8:55 AM, Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Completely forgot: Mike, would you mind me splitting your patches > > installing libtool and swig, such that there is one commit for the > > release.sh script and .gitignore, and the other for the actual > > installation of the component? > > > > I think this would make cherry-picking and following history easier. > > Actually, I rethought this. There are two good reasons to leave the > history of work/git-svn as-is: > > - It is faithful. I am not a president of a major nation state, so I do > not feel compelled to rewrite history.
It doesn't bother me either way. It is a work branch (subject to rewriting) and I should have committed the generated content separate from the creation content. If you'd rather, I can redo my commits. > > It should also make it easier for other people to get inspiration, > should they get as stuck as we did many times. > > - I am a lazy bastard. > > So, unless there are objections, I want to create a new branch, "msys", > from work/git-svn as-is. ACK > > This allows us to go back to that branch at any time, should we need any > other MSys program (or update one). > > Then I would scratch temp/msys, work/msys, and work/msysperl. ACK > > As for work/msysfull, I'd like to push this onto "full". Again, only if > there are no objections. ACK > > The next step is to get subversion+perl and Term::ReadKey onto "devel", > weeding out what we do not need (and noting the original commit on the > "msys" branch). > > Comments? We could do this instead of or as well as rewriting history. Like you said, it's probably easier to just do this without rewriting history. > > Just a reminder: AFAIR we decided that > - branches in the work/* namespace are subject to rebasing (or deletion), > - branches in <yourname>/* should not be touched by anyone else but you, and > - top-level branches are _never_ to be rebased, and additionally, they > should be only updated with at least one Ack by another team member. > > Ciao, > Dscho > > P.S.: yes, that convention means that I fscked up: temp/msys was an error. > Mike
