> On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:53, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:50, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:34:05 -0700, Alexander Hansen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> No surprise there. :-) >>> >>> I was going to initialize the 10.9-libc++ distribution, but then I >>> got to thinking about whether it might not be a bad plan to use a cvs >>> import of the 10.7 tree and then rename the directory, so that we can >>> preserve the history. >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> I do not support making a new distro subdir by simply cloning the old. >> This is a great chance to prune out lots of old crap that doesn't >> build, stop relying on system hacks like X11 symlink, stop carrying >> forward -shlibs stub packages from old libversions, etc. However, >> cloning the old into a holding-pen in git (preserving history) and then >> using that for selective manual moving into the live distro still >> within git gives us history linkage. New dist would essentially be a >> fork or branch. >> >> dan >> >> -- >> Daniel Macks >> [email protected] >> >> > > Sure, that makes sense.
Well, maybe. ;-) I’m not exactly sure about how this would be implemented, since I believe the selfupdate-git code only pulls from master. Perhaps we’d have to tweak that during the development phase, and have the to-be processed stuff be in a non-master branch.
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