On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net>wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:18:32PM -0800, Jason Gerecke wrote:
> > After consulting with Ping, the CVS repositories are going to be
> > retired. With SourceForge hinting at a possible end-of-life for CVS
> > service it seems like a good idea to take a preemptive step and
> > consolidate everything under Git.
>
> \o/
>
> > However, while preparing the pull the plug I've run into a small snag:
> > the legacy linuxwacom code is hosted in three repositories that all
> > disagree to some extent. The linuxwacom-dev and linuxwacom-prod
> > repositories on CVS are the most up-to-date as far as version tags go,
> > but have different histories and tags. The linuxwacom repository on
> > Git is slightly less up-to-date, but does have a few patches the
> > others don't -- including the complete removal of kernel code.
>
> any other patches than removing the kernel code? if not, that could be
> recreated quickly.
> unless there's a huge number of patches, I recommend ignoring the git repo
> and focusing on the most up-to-date one.
>
We can even remove the current linuxwacom git repo if that helps. All we
need is to import linuxwacom-dev to git as linuxwacom.
> > Any thoughts on which version we want to use, or how we should merge
> > the code/commits/tags between them?
> first, my suggestion is that if you plan to continue with -prod and -dev to
> merge them both into a single repository, with -prod on a branch where you
> regularly cherry-pick/merge the patches suitable.
> not sure if git cvsimport does this nicely, but it's worth a try
>
No need to keep both -prod and -dev. Just import -dev to git is good enough.
> I guess you plan to keep the current "one repository for everything"
> instead
> of splitting it up into logical units (kernel, xdrv, the various
> utilities)?
>
Yes. And one git repo/tree for the whole legacy linuxwacom source.
Ping
> you probably already know this but I use this command to import the
> linuxwacom tree into the linuxwacom branch on my repo:
> git cvsimport -u -v -d
> :pserver:anonym...@linuxwacom.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/linuxwacom
> -o linuxwacom linuxwacom-dev
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>
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