Re: conversion to git

2009-02-02 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Monday 02 February 2009 21:41:40 Stefano Zacchiroli, vous avez écrit : > > Anyway, the (vast) majority has ruled out the decision. I only hope > > I will still be able to maintain my packages with svn for the time > > being... > > Nevertheless, I've never wanted to impose my preferences to anybo

Re: conversion to git

2009-02-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:19:05PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > I agree with you. Appart from the complexity that git induces, I > still don't see at all the benefits of using a distributed CVS for > simple source trees like packages. It really seems to me that the > only motivation was a sort of

Re: conversion to git

2009-02-02 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 17:19, Romain Beauxis wrote: > I agree with you. Appart from the complexity that git induces, I still don't > see at all the benefits of using a distributed CVS for simple source trees > like packages. >From my own developer perspective on simple source trees (mainl

Re: conversion to git

2009-02-02 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Monday 02 February 2009 09:33:44 Ralf Treinen, vous avez écrit : > For relatively simple packages, like hevea, this is an overkill. I do not > recall how much time I lost on my last attempt with git but it certainly > was too much. I really appreciate it when I can rebuild the packages I care >

conversion to git

2009-02-02 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hi, maybe I should say some words why I opposed against converting packages from svn to git : http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2008/11/msg00060.html Eric (thanks !) at that time helped me to solve that problem: git-buildpackage just does not use pristine-tar, despite having passed th