From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone' Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:39:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <49AF9601.9060709@op5.se> <43d8ce650903050337n48924fc3l89ef991d578f5849@mail.gmail.com> <20090305120602.GA18717@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090305124512.GA2723@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matthieu Moy , John Tapsell , Git Mailing List To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 06 11:41:43 2009 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 1LfXUa-0004fW-2m for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:41:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754577AbZCFKjx (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 05:39:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755477AbZCFKjx (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 05:39:53 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:17702 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755637AbZCFKjv (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 05:39:51 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so513430fgg.17 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:39:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=laEVGIi/1dApm5PVGvSnFfp9PN+x8Zpk02olfPImrJM=; b=S9SaSfAp1NOwzas0UfJwkLL/YBe587rPkyNO1ByAeHkywHbU0rVpSxXm4xoswijFxw qMXyw53MfOkot9UvL2C3gANByvObW4b6OL6nZlJhYSfqQgnRyIg7NdXPnHzujSKnOYcN O3pvbIrmWntVtd/wRXkBaAr3Ww74GGzTnpWA0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=vp/YZFckuJ9WQFBmrltVwNDcSCX7MfDD+FJUXjN9WJKYZlNf2H4gs1R2jZvRDCecYS qrEb/7dkEKS0D4oZetVNrergIvhFt4dRtGcpUpeVJbW3/1ur7ytKLoJngT8ba2Sg8G2H OlRIRuwoPji5462WL84Yai0tZD+vwJpu2aNFw= Received: by 10.86.66.19 with SMTP id o19mr1236782fga.60.1236335987428; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:39:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abwm219.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.236.219]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm3917998fge.48.2009.03.06.02.39.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:39:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n26Afe50008091; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:41:40 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id n26Afcej008088; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:41:38 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <20090305124512.GA2723@coredump.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:38:27PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > >>>> * we have lots other files in git.git that are autogenerated (the >>>> documentation files, for example) >>> >>> I'm not aware of any auto-generated files that are checked in. Can you >>> give an example? >> >> man pages and html docs are commited, but in a separate branch. IOW, >> Junio abuses Git as a distribution mechanism, but keeps it totally >> separate from the actual sources. > > OK, true; but that is a totally different mechanism, unless the proposal > is to autobuild a "this would be the release tarball" branch similar to > html and man branches. I thnk the proposal was to have 'configure' branch with configure script built, similar to how 'html' and 'man' branches have built documentation in HTML and manpages format. However while toolchain needed to produce documentation (asciidoc + xmlto) isn't, I think, something very common, in my opinion autoconf is something that is present on systems containing other build tools required to build git from sources. So 'configure' branch is not, I think, as necessary as 'html' and 'man' branches; additionally 'html' branch (or the repository used to build documentation, or the byproduct of building documentation) is used to generate on-line docs for git. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git