Gmsh git-repo

[Christophe Prud'homme]

Anton,

If it is possible to just keep the debian dir like in svn-buildpackage
I am all for git
could you tell me how it goes ?


Thanks in advance
C.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Anton Gladky <gladky.anton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, Christophe,
>> I fail to see why git is so much better, unless I am mistaken you have
>> to keep the  whole code in the git repo
>
> No, you do not have to keep the whole code. It is possible to keep
> only debian/-folder.
>
> I think it is better to switch to git, because tagging is easier,
> branching is more convenient, git is actively developed and many
> projects are switching to it; allows to keep all tarballs of source
> code with pristine-tar module,  git-buildpackage is a comfortable
> tool; I guess web-interfaces of git [1] is much better, than svn [2];
> git commands are similar to svn [3] and easy to understand.
>
> I just propose to do it, as it seems to me more prospectively. If not
> - no problem, I remove that repo.
>
> [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/packages/gmsh.git
> [2] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/packages/gmsh/trunk
> [3] http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
>
> Anton
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Christophe Prud'homme
> <prudhomm at debian.org> wrote:
>> Anton
>>
>> I have maintained Gmsh for years now and I indeed to continue to do it.
>> I fail to see why git is so much better, unless I am mistaken you have
>> to keep the  whole code in the git repo
>> instead of just the debian directory.
>> I am not in favor of this change unless you provide some proof it helps.
>>
>> Best regards
>> C.
>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Anton Gladky <gladky.anton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi, all
>>>
>>> I have imported gmsh svn-repository with all its history into the new
>>> created git-repo[1].
>>> How do you find that?
>>>
>>> I think git is much better, than svn:
>>> * better web-interface
>>> * more convenient tagging
>>> * has a tons of useful additional tools (git-buildpackage, pristine-tar.....)
>>>
>>> I propose to switch to git.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/packages/gmsh.git
>>> Anton
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Prof. at Univ. Grenoble in Applied Math.
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>>
>



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