On 06-08-2011 20:55:05 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 04:13:52PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > In this email, I step away from the current model that Gentoo uses for > > the gentoo-x86 repository. Instead, I consider a repo-per-package > > model, as in use by e.g. Fedora [1] and Debian [2]. > Everything you have mentioned here was previously covered in the > discussions about Git conversion models. Please consult the history of > this list, as well as the -scm list. Additionally, a large discussion > about the pros and cons of all 3 models (package per repo, category per > repo, single repo) was had at the GSoC mentor summit last year, and a > number of the core Git developers were involved in the discussion.
I see now my previous search wasn't complete. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I have the impression the previous discussions looked at repo-per-package just from a storage point of view, not from a functional point of view. The git overhead for repo-per-package is admittedly quite undesirable. > Problems: > - atomic/well-ordered commits that span packages, eclasses and profiles/ > directories. (Esp. committing to eclasses and then packages > afterwards). This can be done with a single commit to the rsync tree script, and it doesn't necessarily need git repos. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
