Feature changed by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #308844, revision 2 Title: rcs: not an RCS ... Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Michael Meeks (michael_meeks) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We need a decent revision control system to back OBS, and one that we can trust, not to loose data. My preferred option is git [ though clearly not for the big binary files, and huge patches, which need a bespoke 'storage' ]. Currently, the obs RCS looses history very routinely. There are -lots- of ways to loose a packages' entire history: + when it is removed - it looses all history - rather than being hidden from that date. + IIRC - osc copypac also trashes history, not even copying the source history. Of course - tagging is not possible: so, in order to have branches, or known-good-states of a project it is necessary to 'osc copy' a load of packages (using a slew of unreliable manual shell-scripting). Resolving conflicts is horrible, particularly with the 'repairlink' tool, which is highly non-intuitive, and routinely auto-breaks packages. I -always- resort to attempting the conflict resolution by some more pedestrian and reliable manual means locally. While it is claimed that the 'obs' is "subversion-like" - we seem to have captured all the negatives of subversion: such as not knowing where your tags are - and none of the benefits: such as retaining full history, and history informed merges etc. when you branch & tag. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Using git would allow us to learn a tool that is widely useful and familiar in the software world, rather than something that is at best equally twisty, but worse - different. + Discussion: + #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-01-19 01:41:02) + Recently, I deleted a project in a local OBS (which had Botan-1.8.8), + and the tarballs were retained in /srv/obs/sources.. clearly: + + 01:40 ares:../sources/Botan > ls 03026a8788c7ac2be5c2f810b89234a0- + Botan.spec 0eb176c70b8b66d27247e6c22246fafa-Botan-ull_constants.patch. + bz2 21f8ca8ea39f6a91ece2cb92127a0113-Botan-1.6.4.tar.bz2 + 263ea51001ab49f3e5f26fb18d415996-Botan.changes + 2bf2f9df9a52cd326ecfdb2836cead29-Botan-ull_constants.patch.bz2 + 41b1abc34c3e696da89f2c78707c7b5e-Botan.spec + 4e0a5b122fc80897b5b8a7ae7d5eff96-Botan-no_executable_stack.patch + 590fb4da477eb6fe3044de507c252ee6-MD5SUMS + 5e807da5314436eef9aa89875a88a1f7-Botan-missing_sentinel.patch + 6cc56ccabd396eada9738ffebf90b7ef-MD5SUMS + 902aca690474166103e77278edb99f37-Botan.spec + a6a0976ab585006d0b6ea07315c8855a-Botan-fix_install_paths.patch + a7983322375e92eedee5a6f5af784ffc-Botan-inttypes.patch + cb7cf79c34414cdf1f7a25569d7b82ac-Botan-1.8.8.tar.bz2 + cbf0d2dd8d09e68f70fa820fbd786be4-Botan-inttypes.patch + d25f16c40b055a1ed8e85b11bc19fcdb-MD5SUMS + d3fdeb79e33037185c2906e033e06a16-Botan.spec + d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e-ready d4fdce6b89a596c60fd9144b54b0fcfe- + Botan.spec d8b871e28d1a722d56d703a22860b40a-Botan-no_cpu_tuning.patch + dc5b36c7c23071731fed8916b736efcf-Botan-no_fpermissive.patch + eddec67063305833d211fbe6056c4932-MD5SUMS + fab181550abb855b694059ec602e6724-MD5SUMS -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308844