At Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:50:52 +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote: > > > So to sum up my impression of your replies: > > > - There is no strong desire to change the version control, mainly > > because the pkgsrc users do not see much benefit of doing it > > I'm neither pkgsrc nor NetBSD developer but > I'd like to add my two cents too. > > Your initial question was about wip, not about pkgsrc. > I personally think that the main advantage of DVCS over centralized systems > is absense of "commit right" notion. In my view everything else > including technical advantages are secondary. As *everybody* can take > account on sourceforge, moving to git gives nothing new for WIP development. > Efficient and painless branching, huge benefit of git, also will not > give any benefits for WIP development because branching > in WIP are very very rare. > So, I personally don't see significant benefits for cvs->git move for WIP. > > At the same time, it whould be VERY, VERY nice to see a main pkgsrc > repository on git, bzr or whatever else DVCS. And the same for NetBSD source > code. Here distributed development may drammatically improve both NetBSD and > pkgsrc development process. Also in NetBSD and pkgsrc trees branches are > regular, so git may show all of its advantages. whether for WIP of for pkgsrc itself, IMO effort would best be invested in automating mandatory tests on submission. I think this is a more fundamental change that I think will bring substantial benefits. IMO whether this is done on hg, git, cvs or whatever doesn't matter that much. I have used Aegis on several projects and I think principal ideas (by default, every change set added is accompanied with an automated test evidencing progress, i.e. failing before the change and succeeding after the change) it implements excellent. Best regards, Marko
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