On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chith...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I'm sorry for harping on that topic again, but if we had used grobian's > initial proposal for git migration[0] - one repository per package, and the > portage tree would be an aggregation of those - then we could have such a > thing basically for free now.
Not really. Unless you planned to never delete old versions of packages from the tree. Also, if you remove a package from the tree you'd need to ensure that its repository didn't later disappear, or that people could actually find it. That design also has other problems, like a lack of consistency across the tree. If one package syncs and another one doesn't, maybe you get things that don't work. And heaven help the guy trying to do a tree-wide change. Just as with cvs there would be no association with a change in one package with a change in another. It wasn't a bad idea, but in the end the pros didn't seem worth the cons. I definitely wouldn't do it just so that I didn't have to run git log to find a deleted ebuild. -- Rich
