[Frugalware-devel] git: call for testing

[VMiklos]

hi,

it seems that the tools (pacman-tools and pacman-g2) has now the proper
support to play with git repos. at least it works fine for voroskoi and
me

so we have 3 tasks to do imho:

1) it would be good if others could test this, too

see http://wiki.frugalware.org/Git_setup#Testing for instructions

2) i hope we can be sure about the tools are right (and fix the upcoming
bugs) and we can have a schedule for switching

i would propose something like:

- jul 4th evening: locking all the repos, starting the convert of
  current
- jul 6th evening: if everything goes fine, that should be complete till
  then
- jul 7th evening: fix the testsuite and the tools dir (this is the 3rd
  task, these are minor issues)
- jul 8th: open for new patches (in git's terminology, commits)

i really hope it won't take more than 3-4 days to switch, i know that
it's a PITA when you can push any feture/bugfix/secfix for days

about stable: this is something that probably voroskoi can decide, given
that the tool updates are backward-compatible ones, we're not forced to
switch. we can though, just then updating stable from stable won't work
:)

about other repos: they're realatively small, we can convert them
anytime, but i think it would be good to lock them too for those days
and provide converted repos for them, too

i hope that this is basically ok to you, though the first is obviously:

please check out the wiki page, try to push an update (include some
"test patch for git" or so in the commit message) and report how it goes
:)

ps: again, repoman rec and repoman push should be almost the same for
git and it is for darcs, and for other repos, pacman-tools now contains
dg, you may want to give it a try till you're not comfortable with git
:)

thanks,
VMiklos

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developer of Frugalware Linux - http://frugalware.org
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