[lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been working trying to understand Git a little better and trying to evaluate whether it is appropriate for LFS to migrate. What I've done is to copy the alfs repository to anduin and work with that copy. Note to Pierre: nothing has been changed on the lfs server. I had to reorganize the

[lfs-dev] headers_check : should we drop it ?

2014-03-09 Thread Ken Moffat
I've just noticed that someone on CLFS ran 'make headers_check' and feared that the usual error reports (from kexec.h and soundcard.h) about userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel were errors. In theory, running make headers_check allows _kernel_ devs to check

Re: [lfs-dev] headers_check : should we drop it ?

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I've just noticed that someone on CLFS ran 'make headers_check' and feared that the usual error reports (from kexec.h and soundcard.h) about userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel were errors. In theory, running make headers_check allows

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread Kevin Lyda
Sites like github, bitbucket, code.google.com or gitorious all offer free hosting and nice webui's for people to more easily provide patches. It eases the git learning curve for people, it reduces bandwidth usage on your server and it lowers the bar to participation. Running your own git server

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread Kevin Lyda
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Kevin Lyda ke...@ie.suberic.net wrote: Sites like github, bitbucket, code.google.com or gitorious all offer free hosting and nice webui's for people to more easily provide patches. It eases the git learning curve for people, it reduces bandwidth usage on your

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 9, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been working trying to understand Git a little better and trying to evaluate whether it is appropriate for LFS to migrate. Here is an article which presents why a person should move to GIT.

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Harrington wrote: On Mar 9, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been working trying to understand Git a little better and trying to evaluate whether it is appropriate for LFS to migrate. Here is an article which presents why a person should move to GIT.

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS and Git

2014-03-09 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 9, 2014, at 9:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Well there is a difference between LFS and BLFS. Although there are several devs authorized to commit to LFS, in the last cycle only Matt and I did so. BLFS had seven committers in the same cycle. Generally the only collisions I see are in

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread Ken Moffat
- Forwarded message from Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com - #?^€^ ! I managed to send the reply to blfs instead of lfs. On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:16:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Merging is generally not needed by me, but that may be the reason Armin wants to move to git. I

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: - Forwarded message from Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com - #?^€^ ! I managed to send the reply to blfs instead of lfs. On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:16:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Merging is generally not needed by me, but that may be the reason Armin wants

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 9, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: The big benefit of svn is increasing decimal revision numbers. I saw a while back this for a pre-commit hook. What you could end up with is a pre-commit hook which would include in the comment a revision number, with an algo not involving

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:06:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: The great benefit of git is in branches - in svn, a branch is cast in stone and is a PITA. In git, branches are just pointers. If you want to maintain a stable branch, you can cherry-pick specific commits

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:06:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: The great benefit of git is in branches - in svn, a branch is cast in stone and is a PITA. In git, branches are just pointers. If you want to maintain a stable branch, you can cherry-pick