[Nix-dev] Re: Re: new possible movement to git (?)

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Michael Raskin wrote:

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> On 08/04/2010 04:59 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> I said about having a Git mirror being a good start in multi-VCS system.
> Storing repository in Git has some drawbacks, as it stores too little
> history. As far as I know with our branch/merge cycle for
> stdenv-updates, it would be impossible to find out which path was
> stdenv-updates and which was trunk except by counting distinct stdenvs
> on each path.
I'd prefer to have real topic branches (like t/gcc-x.y, t/glibc-x.y, 
t/cross-build etc.)

When I came to NixOS this time, nobody was able to tell me what's happening 
in stdenv-updates (which update). I think that this is bad.