Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com schrieb: big_snip / Just wondering: do you want to bisect the whole bundle of trees at once or just single packages ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-07 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 05:44:03AM -0600, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: humm... what build.git ? :-) on master I do not even clone build.git anymore... Then bootstrap.git, you get it. :) Con: it seriously increase the barrier of entry. git already scare some people... git +

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-07 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Miklos Vajna vmik...@frugalware.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 05:44:03AM -0600, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: humm... what build.git ? :-) on master I do not even clone build.git anymore... Then bootstrap.git, you get it. :) ;-) (I

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 05:44 -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: Note that the main drawback of our current approach is indeed the bisection problem. It would be certainly be convinient to be able to bisect on the entire set of repos... but how much pain/risk do we want to take to improve that

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-07 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:29:23PM +, Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote: Could we do some sort of date based bisection ? or does that not work because the patches are not in chronological order really ;-) It's possible to do g checkout @{2011-02-07}, but then we have to

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-07 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 09:38:14AM -0600, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: How about having a after-push git-hook in the master branch in our git.fdi/git/libreoffice/* git repos that generate the list of HEAD-sha1 that was you should be able to almost-completely bisect. sure in

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-07 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 05:44 -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: Note that the main drawback of our current approach is indeed the bisection problem. It would be certainly be convinient to be able to bisect on the entire

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-07 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Miklos Vajna vmik...@frugalware.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 09:38:14AM -0600, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: How about having a after-push git-hook in the master branch in our git.fdi/git/libreoffice/* git repos that generate the list of

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-07 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:18:39PM -0600, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: The problem of the tinderbox approach is the coarse granularity (it is not uncommon to have 1/2 a dozen or more of independent commit between 2 build, the reliability (tinderbox sometime are down and this is

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-07 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:33:00PM +0100, Miklos Vajna vmik...@frugalware.org wrote: Automatic git commit --amend is really dangerous, I would not do it. It's not an accident non-fastforwards are rejected while pushing. It turns out I misunderstood it, I thought this is about git commit

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-06 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:39:41PM +0100, Jan Holesovsky ke...@suse.cz wrote: Can you please do a bit of research in that regard, and summarize how we would gain from using git submobule? To my understanding, in short: git submodules are not like how svn externals are usually used. svn

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-06 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com schrieb: Note that the main drawback of our current approach is indeed the bisection problem. It would be certainly be convinient to be able to bisect on the entire set of repos... but how much pain/risk do we want to take to improve that aspect of

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-02-05 Thread Tobias Rosenberger
I meant the repos in the bootstrap repo, of course, not the build repo. Am 31.01.2011 16:23, schrieb Norbert Thiebaud: I concur. my limited understanding of how submodule works lead me to believe that it would not be a nice fit with what we do 1/ it is more appropriate when the 'modules' have

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-01-31 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Tobias, On 2011-01-30 at 20:56 +0100, Tobias Rosenberger wrote: is there a reason why you don't use git submodule for managing the other repos in the build repo? The reason is that so far nobody researched that enough, to be able to judge if it would help us, or not :-) From what I know

Re: [Libreoffice] git submodule

2011-01-31 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jan Holesovsky ke...@suse.cz wrote: Hi Tobias, On 2011-01-30 at 20:56 +0100, Tobias Rosenberger wrote: is there a reason why you don't use git submodule for managing the other repos in the build repo? The reason is that so far nobody researched that enough,