On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 10:57:15AM +0200, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 4/15/2023 3:23 AM, Carlos via ntg-context wrote: > > > thank you Taco, Hans, and Aditya, Mikael, et > > > > Hans, I was just curious about your git strategy and wanted to ask you > > about something. > > I have no strategy. I see it as just an offline repository and archive.
It's a strategy. It may not be the fanciest but you wrote earlier: >it's sort of the original git archive and our backup plan. > > > https://github.com/contextgarden/context ‹backup plan› has the same meaning there than a master plan (no pun intended with git) hence the association with a strategy. But when I wrote ‹strategy› it was not written with the intention to convey a message of exhaustive calculations to get or divise the plan of plans. NO. Rather more like what the definition says about it a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim. what is the backup plan of git as an archive but just a backup strategy. > > The luametatex repos sort of resembles what I have on my machine but even > then I always use intermediate 'compare before merge' steps that predate > git. Git (or svn) is nice for seeing changes but I admit that I never > roll-back using git. When I have to integrate something in e.g. luametatex > that comes from git I always diff (winmerge) and "manually merge". So much > for stragety: not that fancy. I agree > > The context updates are assembled from a completely different dev structure > (think also of temporary files, runtime files for manuals etc that don't > belong in something git) and turning that modus operandi into something git > would make my way of doing things pretty inefficient, so unless very little > changes etc happen i won't change that. > But it's good for the memory Hans. It's good for us. Studies on humans have revealed that learning or adapting to new methods might prove beneficial in the long run. > All the git magic is maintained by Mojca and occassionally we discuss how to > move on (we have some pending install-from-git stuff but that might take a > while before being promoted). > > I'm not really interested in al the additional stuff like chats, pull > requests, keeping track of comments in git, all these (for me useless) > statistics. I don't want to end up in an endless 'check this or that' noose, > so for me email and communicating (could be visual) with some involved does > it well; more fun too. I agree with you there. But who said anything about messages, chats, and the interactive social gitclub as gitlab, github and its ilk have suddenly become part of > > For some other projects git(hub|lab) is a communication method, basically an > on-line storage. > > > Did you guys ever consider having a cgit interface and hosting it. > > > > A bunch of projects have done it > > > > heck. Even git, which is where everything solely depends on in the end, is > > running it. > > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ > > > > https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/ > There is not much to gain with adding yet another interface to what we have > now. It only works if one or more people commit (no git pun intended) > themselves long-term to it which relates to ie beging used. > It's just an interface much more simpler than what the git archive backup interface currently in use presumably undergoes. Git is sort of big as-is and that's not even counting all its remote helpers by which all those places depend on (gitlab, github, bitbucket), which makes it even bigger. I've just seen that interface in a few projects and thought it was nice that the devs have somehow implemented it. > (Keep in mind that it's all volunteer work.) > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : https://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- You can be replaced by this computer. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
