[arch-dev-public] CVS links in AUR?

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 14:52:27 EDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >  Does no one else still have changes cached locally they never checked
>  >  >  in or anything else like that?
>  >
>  >  Why do you still have uncommitted changes in CVS when we initially
>  >  began this move something like 4 or 5 weeks ago. Please commit them if
>  >  they are important - if they are not important enough to commit after
>  >  5 weeks, I automatically assume they are insignificant.
>
>  Well when i redid the udev stuff ages ago, I had to let it langish
>  because people told me to. And since CVS can't do offline diffs, I
>  don't even know if I have changes in places. I'm sorry my workflow
>  isn't quite like yours and that I sometimes like to view history
>  through command line tools.
>
>  I haven't had the chance to do a full checkout and pull the attached
>  patch over and apply it to SVN, but maybe I'll get a chance sometime.
>
>
>  >  And yes, I'm pretty sure you're the only one still using CVS. Travis
>  >  and I spent about an hour (most of it was Travis though) making CVS
>  >  workable just for you, when you were one of the more vocal people for
>  >  moving away from CVS. Please stop using it so we can stop wasting time
>  >  fixing it when it breaks for you.
>  >
>  >  On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>  >  >  Issues right now:
>  >  >  1) There is no public SVN checkout method yet
>  >
>  >  I sent you a personal email about getting rid of the autowifi svn repo
>  >  so we could repurpose the public svn stuff. Until you give me the
>  >  go-ahead on that, this can't happen.
>  >
>  >
>  >  >  2) The description should reflect that we use SVN and that community uses
>  >  > CVS (should mention where one can checkout community)
>  >
>  >  Which description? In the wiki?
>  The link from the front page: http://archlinux.org/cvs/
>
>  I'm normally a fan of progress and change, but I have to disagree with
>  your tone in this email and how you've managed to move all wrongs to
>  Thomas and I. Makes my work feel wanted around here.

Um? Woah?

Sorry if it came off that way. It wasn't intended like that. I apologize.


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