Requirements gathering for new package source control

Karel Zak kzak at redhat.com
Tue Jun 10 13:06:41 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:23:19AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:36:27 +0200
> Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:19:38PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > Thank you all for your thoughtful consideration.
> > 
> >  - be able to easily rebase/refresh a patch
> 
> That's pretty outside the scope of any SCM we deploy.  Use tools like
> quilt.

[...]

> Generate patches from what?  We don't store exploded tarballs.  We
> store tarballs and patches.

 Right... so, why we need any SCM (=source code managment)? Shouldn't
 be better for our work to use quilt+rsync?

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>




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