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* Allan Clark <allanc@chickenandporn.com> wrote: > I for one appreciate the idea, but would press against such -- it adds the > dependency that all users have GIT components (and the interpreter it needs > -- sure, most users have that, but...). Any crosstool-user who does not have git installed (or could trivially do it) ? ;-o > This idea has obvious convenience benefits, and would allow site-specific > fixes to be shared (leveraging GIT's distributed versioning). Exactly :) > Be aware: for repeatability, a user will need to re-run a build with exact > versions/revisions, so you'll need a way to record what "latest" is, and/or > configure a revision level to use. The user simply selects the version to use, and ct-ng will checkout the appropriate ref. > It may make more sense to allow the user to configure a git repos and pull > from that if necessary, but the tool should continue to work in the absence > of git. This may introduce issues of the patches or the git getting > out-of-sync -- I'm sure some smart scripting at the server side can get > around that, such as generating new patches on new pulls, or re-calculating > a "gap" on pulls where meatware is needed to re-sync. Well, we could migrate our patches into git and let a little script pull out the patches to single text files againt (-> git-format-patch) cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq
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