Marc Weber <[email protected]> writes: Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I don't understand the whole svn-to-git-import-is-hard issue.
I've been using git-svn for nixos/nixpkgs without problems from when I first started using nix (which is still quite recent though). I push to github to store my own commits, which I regularly submit in batches to this list to have them flow back to svn. Locally it's all git, so I can branch easily, work offline, shuffle stuff and have my machines connect to each other as remotes. So I don't have the feeling I'm missing something while the official repo is svn. Well, github pull requests would be nice. That's all. I too would like the official repositories to move to github eventually, but I don't see why people would want to fork each other's unoffical repos before that happens. It would always be somewhat behind (commit-wise) the official svn one. Am I missing something? Mathijs > Excerpts from Florian Friesdorf's message of Sat Feb 18 16:06:06 +0100 2012: >> How does your authors.txt differ from maintainers.nix? > authors.txt is used to rewrite svn user names to emails (which git > requires). I never compared both. I just took the file from someone else > in the past adding missing email entries. > > But that's not the point - I think we should all base our branches on > the same git repo sharing history - that's why I offer access to my SSH > account so that people can push and share their ideas. > > I hesitated moving to github because all "forks" would contain "froked > from" info - and I didn't want to look like the "initial author" of > nixpkgs - because I'm not. That's why I hesitated from uploading to > github. But its a fact that at least some (if not the majority) would > prefer using git for various reasons (even though some users could also > imagine using other tools such as monotone, fossil or mercurial). > > So I appreciate this (unofficial) step - just want to coordinate that > this doesn't happen over and over again. > > Marc Weber > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
