[arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

[Ray Rashif]

On 07/03/2010, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 7. März 2010 12:03:08 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
>> 2) svn->git migration is not trivial, since tools, the website, .. will
>> need to be adapted.
>
> The problem is that our current repo layout and workflow is not mappable to
> git. E.g. we use svn's feature to checkout specific dirs/files etc..
>
> But I guess if someone would come up with a superior solution using git we
> would be quite happy.

Sparseness is a complicated matter in git:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout

And we need that the most.


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