Re: [proaudio] Git migration

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Le Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:38:20 +0200,
Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Le Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:06:14 +0200,
> Karl Lindén <spray.sucks@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > Some time ago there was some discussion about whether the proaudio
> > overlay should migrate to git. Would it make sense to do such a
> > migration or would it be too much work for now?
> > 
> > What are the arguments that support such a change? Furthermore, what
> > are the arguments against?
> > 
> > One supportive argument is that pull requests or equivalent are
> > pretty nifty. On the contrary, SVN is (in my opinion) pretty nice
> > to work with, but that is not a strictly technical argument.
> 
> I use both svn and git, and for a so simple project, the only
> "advantage" I can see with git is it is never. Which is not a
> technical argument either. We can now argue about the never, the
> better.
> 
> And well, I use a test overlay for my personal ebuilds and to work on
> the pro-audio ebuilds. If I have 2 ebuilds with the same name, emerge
> will use the one in my test overlay, and I see no simpler way to do
> the same with a private git branch.
> 
> Also, my test overlay include things that have nothing to do with the
> pro-audio overlay, so it is no point for me to include it in some
> private git branch.
> 
> So well, I have no use for git with pro-audio, and I am just fine with
> svn.

But if someone can show he/she have an use case for a git repository in
the context of the overlay, I will have no objection to migrate.
 
> 
> Also, the proaudio-dev branch can be used to put experimental or
> broken ebuilds, so that every body can look at them. For now, it is
> old stuffs in it, a real mess with no ChangeLog associated with the
> ebuilds, but nobody stop anyone to use it. It would be best to put
> ChangeLog files with new ebuilds here, with comments to explain what
> the issue is.
> 
> Know someone what the ebuilds in proaudio-dev are? and if yes, can
> ChangeLog files be added. If not, we can purge all of them at the
> exception of 1 or 2 examples to show the file hierarchy. Or purge all
> of them and add a README.
> 
> Dominique
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for your thoughts!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Karl
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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