On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
> On 16 February 2012 10:55, David C. Rankin
> <drankinatty@...> wrote:
>> On 02/16/2012 09:41 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
>>>> Bummer. Quoting the cmake master:
>>>> >
>>>> >  "Remind me again, why we replaced svn with git? :)"
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>>>> >
>>> Some top google results:
>>>
>>> http://thinkvitamin.com/code/why-you-should-switch-from-subversion-to-git/
>>>
>>> http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
>>
>> And you drank the Koolaid didn't you :)
>>
>>  I see the advantages argued, but I'm not sure on balance how the hit due to
>> the change is outweighed by what git does for tde. I'm sure it works out, I just
>> don't know enough comparatively to see it. Regardless, we have git now, we will
>> just make due with what it provides. At some point in the future, if the distro
>> build dirs grow in size, it might be worth configuring them as individual
>> modules under tde-packaging to allow individual cloning.
>>
>> --
>> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>
> Right on I drink koolaid all day. It's delicious :p
>
> But yes we could do that eventually. though I am confused why opensuse
> is taking 30Mb of data.... :o I mean all that should be in the
> repositoriees is a few build files right?
>
> I can't see it growing ridiculously out of size
>
> Calvin
> Calvin
>
If we get submodules in tde-packaging we will be able to clone arch
and other distos package builnding instructions without having to pull
others...