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Re: onwards to git
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:47:43AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Just a suggestion from someone who isn't actively using the ports
> > repository: why not have separate Git repositories for each individual
> > port, and base these repositories on the [glibc]/master branch? ?Doing
> > so, the ports maintainers could periodically merge in [glibc]/master into
> > their ports' branches (which may either be in a separate repository or in
> > the main glibc repository), and it would also automatically be documented
> > which port is maintained, which was the last version of [glibc]/master
> > this port was tested with.
>
> I think this would be a great idea.
I think it's just going to make more work for the maintainers of each
individual port. Mostly, they just keep working. It'll also be a
pain for multi-platform distributors like Debian, who will have to do
the merge anyway.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery