Switching to Git

Tanguy Ortolo tanguy+debian at ortolo.eu
Fri Feb 22 13:05:18 UTC 2013


Joost van Baal-Ilić, 2013-02-22 13:43+0100:
>On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 01:29:36PM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:
>> I think it does not, as that would completely disrupt the regular
>> Git worklows. As I understand it, a Git server is just a repository,
>> and supposed to store revisions, not to produce ones of its own.
>
>The idea is to store foo.in in git, and generate foo from that.

Argh. This is certainly not a Git-friendly workflow.

>> What is that code used for exactly?
>
>To print the date on the flyer.  There's also code to check up-to-date-ness of
>translations, don't remember if that does something cvs-y.

I am not sure it will be feasible at all with Git. But then, I do not 
understand the Makefile, mkconfig and stuff very well, and I was not 
able to determine where that date-fetching code was… :-(

-- 
Tanguy Ortolo
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