[mcclim-devel] Official repository lagging?

[Timothy Moore]

On 11/01/2012 12:11 AM, Michael McDonald wrote:
> 
> Personally, I hate 'git'. My old brain has a far easier time making the correct mental model for CVS or SVN than 'git'. But that's me.
> 
> If you do decide to move to 'git', or anything else for that matter, then I STRONGLY suggest you do it in a fashion whereby you do NOT lose the history of the files. There's a lot of valuable info in the commit messages and the version trees. Just taking the top of trunk from CVS and making a 'git' repo from it is not acceptable in my opinion.
> 
People who maintain their own git repos seem to have started by cloning Andreas Fuchs' mirror, which has a complete history:

commit 3cb03ba6a0bfbd54e5076b20b627905d5517f043
Author: Mike McDonald <mikemac>
Date:   Thu Jun 8 22:01:12 2000 +0000

    Initial check-in

I admit that I forget how to extract the same information out of CVS, but it looks good to me.

Tim

> Michael McDonald
> mikemac at mikemac.com <mailto:mikemac at mikemac.com>
>  commit 3cb03ba6a0bfbd54e5076b20b627905d5517f043
Author: Mike McDonald <mikemac>
Date:   Thu Jun 8 22:01:12 2000 +0000

    Initial check-in

> On Oct 31, 2012, at 2:19 PM, John Morrison wrote:
> 
>> Hi;
>>
>> I also would like to see a single official repository, whether git/github or otherwise, with continued incorporation of patches/improvements.  (Some time ago I submitted patches for the scigraph portion of mcclim which I would have liked to seen included.)  Has there been any movement on this, especially as regards quicklisp?
>>
>> If there is anything I can do to help, I would certainly be happy to do so.  Please advise.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -jm
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Manuel Giraud <manuel at ledu-giraud.fr <mailto:manuel at ledu-giraud.fr>> wrote:
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>>     Rudolf Schlatte <rudi at constantly.at <mailto:rudi at constantly.at>> writes:
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>>     > On Aug 24, 2012, at 10:40, Timothy Moore <moore at bricoworks.com <mailto:moore at bricoworks.com>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     >> I was going to save this mail until my current round of mcclim hacking is finished, but here
>>     >> goes. I'm not particularly interested in continuing to work with CVS. Are people agreeable
>>     >> with moving to git? I'm not invested (at all) in having my github repo become the "official"
>>     >> repo, but a site like github has a lot of advantages as a host.
>>     >
>>     > I'm very much in favor of moving to git.  git-svn works well enough
>>     > for upstream svn archives, but syncing back and forth with cvs is
>>     > always uncomfortable for me.
>>     >
>>     > But could we leave the "official" git archive on common-lisp.net <http://common-lisp.net/>?  I
>>     > like github, but when I'm checking out a project that I'm unfamiliar
>>     > with, I hate having to decide between downloading (for the sake of
>>     > example) onixie/mcclim, slyrus/mcclim, mmontone/mcclim and
>>     > timoore/mcclim.
>>
>>     Same here. I'm too in favor to switch to git (which is clearly easier
>>     than CVS) but keeping the official mcclim repository where the project
>>     is seems better to me. github is cool, fun, social and whatnot but I
>>     find it hard to get an official software out of it.
>>
>>     --
>>     Manuel Giraud
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