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

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:49:22 +0800
Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:

> It will work, no doubt. But the problem is this:
> 
> svn co $url --depth empty # nothing
> cd $dir
> svn up $pkg
> 
> ..against this:
> 
> git clone $url # everything
> cd $dir
> git config core.sparsecheckout true
> echo $pkg > .git/info/sparse-checkout
> git read-tree -m -u HEAD
> 
> And then with svn you can maintain the sparseness with 'svn up
> --set-depth empty' everytime. And also I think the main thing here is
> git will work backwards, and as such, will pull in the whole repo:

once a user did what you did, i think it's fine.
if you want to track a new package, you write it
into .git/info/sparse-checkout, which is not really harder then "svn up
<packagename>"

> "DO NOT CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE SVN REPO."
> 
> From: http://www.archlinux.org/svn/
> 
> So when someone says it's alright to do that, then I think it'll not
> be too hard to migrate the tools to git, and use those tools instead
> of using git directly. In this case, I think we'd no longer need
> 'archrelease' since a git commit is local only, and use push instead
> to "release" the package. That'd then eliminate all directories except
> for the package itself.

maybe - if we would switch to git - we could have mirrors mirror our
git repository.

Dieter