Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Having the repository on alioth doesn't necessarily help if you're >> talking about something like Subversion (and particularly CVS) >> depending on the use case. I don't think we really get back the >> functionality of quilt until we're shipping the repository with the >> source package. Having access to a read-only Subversion repository >> doesn't really help with merging local patches into new upstream >> releases, for example
> Having a svn repo makes it fairly easy to update to a new upstream > version. See svn-upgrade(1). (At least I assume svn-upgrade works about > as well as my own svn-uupdate script that I've used for a thousand or so > such updates, and which works about equally well as git-import-orig > based on the 10 or so times I've used that so far.) I don't understand how svn-upgrade would work when you don't have write access to the repository, which I would expect to be the case in the situation you're talking about (the number of Alioth projects that allow global write is very limited at present). Could you explain? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
