Re: [yast-devel] Migrate YaST svn to git

On Monday 27 February 2012 15:38:25 Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:

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* have a kind of yast-meta repo containing scripts that are able to checkout> single or all yast repos in the same style like the current svn checkout or to search within the other repos Thomas Göttlicher is collecting your usecases (like 'find latest version tag of package X in distribution Y', ...)

There are two big projects doing something in this area which are _not_ using git submodules because they are ... weird.

We do not intend to use git submodules as we know about the difficulties. There even is no need to use them at all. The script in the yast-meta package (name not yet choosen) just knows about all the other yast repos (either statically with a list in a file, or dynamically by querying the github api). The only magic the script does, is to checkout the repos in the same directory structure as we have currently with the svn repo. Its just to make the switch a little easier. So nobody has to use the meta package, but it might help people who are used to our current svn layout. The script currently only exists in my head. I will write a first version within the next days and hope it will be improved and extended by many yasties. Ciao, Daniel -- J. Daniel Schmidt SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development Maxfeldstr. 5 HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) D-90409 Nürnberg GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org