On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:33 PM, William Giokas <1007...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 01:14:01PM -0400, Daniel Wallace wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:43:01PM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: >> > The AUR currently has ~ 41076 packages, which would bring us to an equal >> > amount of git repo's. This doesn't seem very efficient to me. >> > >> > With svn you can put it all in one repo and checkout a single package >> > without checking out the whole repo, which is how >> > [core],[extra],[community] work. >> > >> > I know Exherbo uses Git for their repo's but they seem to split it up >> > into categories [1]. >> > >> > Git seems to have sparse checkout for this in 1.7, but I don't know how >> > it works [2] >> >> git clone --single-branch git://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git >> -b packages/linux >> >> ... then make one for community.git :) >> >> and inside, you can do stuff like... >> >> git fetch origin packages/bash >> git checkout -b packages/bash FETCH_HEAD >> >> and checkout the other branches > > But this does make it so that either no one has push access, or only a > very small subset of people have push access for security reasons. The > whole point of the multiple repos is to allow people full control over > the whole repo with git, and not have to rely on the `makepkg -S` bits. > While great for spectating, it's pretty bad for a bunch of people that > can just simply sign up as contributors. Also, you know what would > happen if we just gave everyone push access. >
I'm fairly certain you can restrict users to only be able to push to certain branches using hooks. So even if there was a single repository users wouldn't be able to push to branches they shouldn't be pushing to. I don't even think full Git push access is the first logical step in implementing version control in the AUR. I think the first logical step would be to have the package submission page have a spot for a changelog entry and then have the backend take care of all the Git business itself rather than having users directly pushing. Then re-assess at a later date and maybe add the ability for direct Git pushing. > Thanks, > -- > William Giokas | KaiSforza > GnuPG Key: 0x73CD09CF > Fingerprint: F73F 50EF BBE2 9846 8306 E6B8 6902 06D8 73CD 09CF
