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Re: onwards to git


On Saturday 02 May 2009 08:58:58 Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> 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 dont know what you're talking about

> I was merely making a proposal.

and i was pointing out reasons why it was a bad idea.  if you think people 
disagreeing with you means they're angry or something, then you'll have to 
rethink how proposals work on mailing lists.
-mike

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