Re: [hatari-devel] Links to TuxFamily repository

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 3/2/19 10:48 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:56:31 +0200
> schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I've shared a lot of links to our Mercurial repository, both at
> > Atari-forum and there are several links in our repository too:
> > 	$ git grep mercurialroot
> >
> > I can convert links in the repository to point to the git repository,
> > but there are few problems:
> >
> > * People using Hatari releases; their links point still to Mercurial
> >     repository, so it would be good if that repository (at least doc/
> >     directory) would still remain e.g. for a year or two, if possible
>
> That's a double-edged sword ... if we keep the hg repo around, there
> might be people who have checked it out and try to "hg update" it now
> and then. They will not notice that we switched to mercurial as long as
> there is no error...

One option is to replace src directory with:
--- src.txt ---
New repository is at: <git repo URL>
---------------

And change top level build scripts to show that.


> But ok, everybody using the latest release should still get valid
> links. So I'd suggest to keep it around until we released another public
> version, but then decomission it immediately afterwards.
>
> > * TuxFamily Git nginx server isn't configured to provide correct
> >     content types for Git repository, only for Mercurial one.
>
> That's unfortunate ... I'll try to set up a cron job that copies the
> files from git to the webserver...

Can't correct content types be provided also for Git repo?


	- Eero