Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 02:20, Pavel Roskin wrote: > If there are any specific problems with git pertinent to GRUB or > preferences of the GRUB developers, I'm ready to convey them to the > git developers and take the blame (if any). > > We don't have to look for the best tool, just for the bes

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there are any specific problems with git pertinent to GRUB or > preferences of the GRUB developers, I'm ready to convey them to the > git developers and take the blame (if any). Personally I'm very happy with GIT and I'm using it in daily basis for mo

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Otavio Salvador wrote: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Saturday 15 December 2007 11:54, Robert Millan wrote: So it seems nobody objected. What do we need to proceed? I do object. Personally, I believe that git is inferior to other

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread willem
Otavio Salvador wrote: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Saturday 15 December 2007 11:54, Robert Millan wrote: So it seems nobody objected. What do we need to proceed? I do object. Personally, I believe that git is inferior to other modern version control sys

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread willem
Markus Elfring wrote: I do object. Personally, I believe that git is inferior to other modern version control systems, thus I don't want to move. If we do, I prefer to go with something better. Which features are you missing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_sof

Re: moving ata initialisation to a command

2007-12-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:01 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> A better solution, IMO, would be changing grub-mkrescue so it doesn't >> load all modules. > > Maybe grub-mkrescue should create a filesystem? Even FAT should be > fine. This way, it will be pos

Re: Grub on x86_64 crash?

2007-12-17 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 05:56 +, Steven Yi wrote: > by > http://cross-lfs.org/view/svn/x86_64-64/boot/building-a-bootloader.html : > > On x86 and x86_64 (multilib) architectures, the preferred bootloader > is GRUB. Unfortunately, GRUB doesn't work on x86_64 Pure64 - the > stage2 files can be co

Re: moving ata initialisation to a command

2007-12-17 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:01 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > A better solution, IMO, would be changing grub-mkrescue so it doesn't > load all modules. Maybe grub-mkrescue should create a filesystem? Even FAT should be fine. This way, it will be possible to load problematic modules from the filesyst

Re: moving ata initialisation to a command

2007-12-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to move ata.mod initialisation away from its _init routine and into > a separate command. This way it isn't a nuissance when it gets included in > monolithic builds (such as the ones made by grub-mkrescue) and disables > biosdisk > completely.

Re: moving ata initialisation to a command

2007-12-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> While you are there why not add optional IO-base argument so one could >> use more than one controller lurking in other IO-bases (second/third PCI >> ?). Of course there needs to be some kind of auto detect for easier >> usage for normal users. >

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread Markus Elfring
> Inferior? I see the disadvantage, that now it works only on unix. This view is incomplete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29#Portability There might be some inconvenience so far. TortoiseSVN is nice because it works as a shell extension for the Windows Explorer. Trac can provide a

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 15 December 2007 11:54, Robert Millan wrote: >> So it seems nobody objected. What do we need to proceed? > > I do object. Personally, I believe that git is inferior to other modern > version control systems, thus I don't want to move

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread Tomáš Ebenlendr
Dne 17 Prosinec 2007, 08:02, Yoshinori K. Okuji napsal(a): > I do object. Personally, I believe that git is inferior to other modern > version control systems, thus I don't want to move. If we do, I prefer to > go with something better. > > Okuji Inferior? I see the disadvantage, that now it work

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread Markus Elfring
> I do object. Personally, I believe that git is inferior to other modern > version control systems, thus I don't want to move. If we do, I prefer to go > with something better. Which features are you missing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software Which management