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Re: onwards to git


Hello!

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:55:26AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 30 April 2009 11:00:42 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> it's also a pain for people who like to have 1 source tree and switch between 
> targets on the fly with only different configure targets.  or for people who 
> want to quickly search all ports for how they handle some feature.
> 
> i really dont see any upside to this.  the proposed rebasing aspect is a 
> complete wash: public git repos should never have their pushed history 
> rebased, and local rebasing of the entire ports tree vs a single arch is 
> exactly the same considering the repo is so small.

Mike, cool down.  I was merely making a proposal.  If you don't like it
then that's fine.  And nowhere did I say anything about rebasing commits.

Also, if there is general consensus that this suggestion of mine is not
needed or wanted -- no problem with that.  :-)


Regards,
 Thomas

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