On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 01:00:50PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 23:23, Mayuresh <[1]mayur...@acm.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 03:42:44PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
>> > For pkgsrc I prefer the git mirror, as I don't have to push
>anything
>>
> There's really no point to actually trying to use the Git repos for
> anything except infrequent testing, and possibly no point to using the
> Hg repos either, until the conversion is 100% frozen with no possibility
> of any new change ever being introduced to the original CVS repo again.
At Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:00:50 -0400, Andrew Cagney
wrote:
Subject: Re: cvs better than git?
>
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 23:23, Mayuresh wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 03:42:44PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > > For pkgsrc I prefer the git mirror, as I don't have to push anything
> > > anyway
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 01:00:50PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>notice how the checksum for the second commit - an event that happened in
>1992 - changed. That shouldn't happen, I suspect something unstable about
>the process.
>Very annoying.
Thanks for the insights. In the
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 23:23, Mayuresh wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 03:42:44PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > For pkgsrc I prefer the git mirror, as I don't have to push anything
> > anyway and a few hours of latency doesn't matter to me.
>
> Don't know whether it's relevant to say on this
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 08:10, Nikita Gillmann wrote:
>
> Sorry, what's the point of this continued thread?
>
> Talking about how X is (faster, smaller, better, whatever) than Y is all
> I see except for some initial
> replies to a question.
>
> Does the Internet not have enough X vs Y discussion
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:15:15 +, Sad Clouds wrote:
...
> Search "read only branches" for subversion and it'll give you some
> ideas. Never done this myself, so no idea how well it works, but from
> what I've read, it is relatively simple.
Been there, done that. Turns out that it is indeed
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:54:30 +0200
Andreas Krey wrote:
> E.g. the answer to 'how do I make tags in svn immutable by default'[1]
> is surprisingly long and intricate - so much that nobody ever fully
> answered that to me.
Search "read only branches" for subversion and it'll give you some
ideas.
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:09:50 +0200
Nikita Gillmann wrote:
> Sorry, what's the point of this continued thread?
Actually I'm always interested in why X is better than Y, so I can
make my own decisions, instead of following some predetermined
inevitability (e.g. Git has won period, just accept it
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:13:47 +, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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> But you are hardly going to convince anyone that git is
> good by pointing out problems in other systems.
Yes. But the part that is weird for me is that nobody actually
even bothers to explain how it gis 'a waste of time'. When we
On 2020-06-18 07:54, Andreas Krey wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 01:26:14 +, Johnny Billquist wrote:
...
For me, I have no problem at all understanding what CVS or SVN does.
I do understand them as well - it's just that I can't understand
the claims that git is uniquely hard to understand.
Sorry, what's the point of this continued thread?
Talking about how X is (faster, smaller, better, whatever) than Y is all
I see except for some initial
replies to a question.
Does the Internet not have enough X vs Y discussion on version control
that you feel the need to contribute to it, or
Greetings,
I have a small question why we have /etc/entropy-file in boot.cfg after
every install but it always tries to update to /var/db/entropy-file on
every build of -STABLE?
--
Sincerely yours,
Dima Veselov
Physics R Establishment of Saint-Petersburg University
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