Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-25 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): (only a few comments here and there) - partman components are very tightly coupled Very frequently changes, such as adding ext4 support, requires making related changes to multiple components. Being able to do so in a single branch in a single

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 25 September 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): - partman components are very tightly coupled Very frequently changes, such as adding ext4 support, requires making related changes to multiple components. Being able to do so in a single branch

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-25 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): [2] Note that this IMO implies cdebconf also gets dropped from the master PO files and thus gets translation handling like any regular Debian package. That can be done. At least from my l10n POV. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-24 Thread Frans Pop
Let me start with a request to other team members: PLEASE join this discussion. Think about how *you* use the repository; consider whether you are confortable with git or not; think about the issues raised both by Joey and me; and *give your opinion*. I hate the fact that this looks to be

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: crazy butt ugly insane reeks can't be bothered to do a proper migration Well, I think we know how you feel about this. But, the presence of the above words makes it much more difficult to write a friendly, reasoned, objective, non-defensive reply. Given the team meeting

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-21 Thread Frans Pop
Given the team meeting this evening I guess this is my last chance to comment. The main reason I haven't so far is that I find myself simply caring less and less, but well. I really have only one argument against the switch to git: the splitting of the repository into multiple separate

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 23:51 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: [1] Which now supports mirroring everything needed to to create CD images using debian-cd, including (released) D-I images and the docs and tools directories :-) One issue I had with debmirror in the past (with nobody to complain to ;-)) was

Re: debmirror (was: d-i git repo: sample conversion)

2009-09-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: One issue I had with debmirror in the past (with nobody to complain to ;-)) Hmmm? Never heard of the BTS? ;-) was that I wanted a partial mirror of main+contrib of testing but just main/debian-installer of sid. I wanted this so that I can

Re: debmirror (was: d-i git repo: sample conversion)

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 10:06 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: One issue I had with debmirror in the past (with nobody to complain to ;-)) Hmmm? Never heard of the BTS? ;-) Fair point ;-) I just never quite got round to it when there seemed to be no

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): We discussed switching to git at DebConf, and came up with a compromise plan that seemed reasonable to all in attendance[1]: Split each d-i package into its own git repository[2], but leave the manual[3] and packages/po[4] in svn. Investigate using

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 September 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: Have you made some progress here? During the team meeting today, there is a rough consensus that we should move on but all of us agreed that you could have interesting comments and, even if they aren't as polished as you would like to, it

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-09-07 Thread Lee Winter
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Frans Popelen...@planet.nl wrote: ... ... debmirror[1] ... ... [1] Which now supports mirroring everything needed to to create CD images using debian-cd, including (released) D-I images and the docs and tools directories :-) Would you please describe

Re: debmirror (was: d-i git repo: sample conversion)

2009-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Lee Winter wrote: [1] Which now supports mirroring everything needed to to create CD images using debian-cd, including (released) D-I images and the docs and tools directories :-) Would you please describe what is left that the new version of debmirror will

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-08-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 13 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote: We discussed switching to git at DebConf, and came up with a compromise plan that seemed reasonable to all in attendance[1]: Split each d-i package into its own git repository[2], but leave the manual[3] and packages/po[4] in svn. Investigate using

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-08-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:49:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: We discussed switching to git at DebConf, and came up with a compromise plan that seemed reasonable to all in attendance[1]: Split each d-i package into its own git repository[2], but leave the manual[3] and packages/po[4] in svn.

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-08-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Joey Hess wrote: Remove $Id$ keywords from all files that have them; git doesn't support that. (Do after conversion) git supports $Id$; you just have to explicitly request it, as you do with svn (using svn:keywords). Quoting the gitattributes(5) manpage: ident When the

d-i git repo: sample conversion

2009-08-12 Thread Joey Hess
We discussed switching to git at DebConf, and came up with a compromise plan that seemed reasonable to all in attendance[1]: Split each d-i package into its own git repository[2], but leave the manual[3] and packages/po[4] in svn. Investigate using submodules[6] and/or mr to tie the git