[Nix-dev] Re: Re: An interview to the fossil creator about fossil

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 11:37:06AM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
>> Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>> 
>> > Urkud talked about the linking between different projects, but I don't
>> > know what was he thinking about. Urkud, can you explain what you had in
>> > mind? Do you mean the git ability to pull from a repository *only*
>> > commits for a single branch, instead of pulling all?
>> It was Evgeny (Phreedom) who was talking about linking between different
>> projects. I think that he is talking about
> Ah sorry. You think that he is talking about what? Or, Evgeny, what were
> you talking about? :)
I see that he was talking about linking tickets to a different project.
 
>> > Related to 'git', I've found this days how difficult it is to
>> > cross-build perl, and I feel it difficult for me to accept more things
>> > perl-based, having other not-worse solutions around. :)
>> You need perl only for git-svn and a few other scripts. All the main
>> commands are in C or bash.
> Ah, nice to know. I did a "grep -R perl" in the git directory, and I saw:
> Concidència en el fitxer binari bin/git
> Concidència en el fitxer binari bin/git-shell
> Concidència en el fitxer binari bin/git-upload-archive
> Concidència en el fitxer binari bin/git-receive-pack
> Concidència en el fitxer binari bin/git-upload-pack
Oops. Not "a few".
> 
> Although you did not reply with a "+1" on that, I favour a lot the ability
> to 'tag' check-ins in the style of monotone certificates, for which I have
> not found a similar enough procedure in git.
> 
> Either in svn or in git, I don't know how we can have any little
> information on "did revision 22403 work to build a nixos on
> armv5tel-linux?", and I think that would have a great value.
> But most of I know about the usage of certificates or tags/properties in
> fossil comes from the manuals, not from usage of those VCS. But I know
> that I've felt the lack of that in both svn and git (not only
> nix-related).
Look at git notes. I don't know how monotone certificates work.