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

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 09:49:25PM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> 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.

Updating the hash of 'stdenv' in trunk makes a rebuild of all packages in trunk.

We have that branch to hold what will be the *next stdenv update in trunk*.

You can have topic branches over it (gcc, glibc, ...) if you want.

Regards,
Lluís.