From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roger Leigh Subject: Re: git and mtime Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:40:55 +0000 Message-ID: <20081120134055.GB6023@codelibre.net> References: <20081119113752.GA13611@ravenclaw.codelibre.net> <46d6db660811190818r3aa2a392pda9106ac4a579cf0@mail.gmail.com> <20081120112708.GC22787@ravenclaw.codelibre.net> <86iqqizgng.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christian MICHON , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Randal L. Schwartz" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 20 14:42:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L39nR-0002c5-3E for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:42:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754724AbYKTNk6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:40:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754727AbYKTNk6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:40:58 -0500 Received: from nagini.codelibre.net ([80.68.93.164]:42958 "EHLO nagini.codelibre.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754724AbYKTNk5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:40:57 -0500 Received: by nagini.codelibre.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 185FA18852; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:40:55 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86iqqizgng.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> X-GPG-Key: 0x25BFB848 X-Debian: testing/unstable X-OS-Uptime: 13:26:52 up 13 days, 1:44, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.11, 0.09 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:11:15AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Roger" == Roger Leigh writes: > > Roger> Except in this case I'm storing the content of *tarballs* (along with > Roger> pristine-tar). I'm committing exactly what's in the tarball with > Roger> no changes (this is a requirement). I can't change the source prior > Roger> to commit. > > If you're not doing distributed source code development, why are you using > git? It's hard to be angry at a screwdriver for not pounding in nails > properly. Err, it *is* being used for distributed development... of Debian packaging. We track upstream releases on one branch, merge this periodically onto the master branch containing the Debian packaging infrastructure, and also have other bits such as a continually-rebased patches branch to generate quilt patch series from. I think you'll find we do actually need to use git. > Sounds like you want rsync or something. I think not! Perhaps if you read my original mail, you might understand the reasoning behind this (whether you consider that valid reasoning or not is another matter). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.