[Nix-dev] nixos and nixpkgs repos on github

[Mathijs Kwik]

Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> writes:

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I don't understand the whole
svn-to-git-import-is-hard issue.

I've been using git-svn for nixos/nixpkgs without problems from when I
first started using nix (which is still quite recent though).

I push to github to store my own commits, which I regularly submit in
batches to this list to have them flow back to svn. Locally it's all
git, so I can branch easily, work offline, shuffle stuff and have my
machines connect to each other as remotes.

So I don't have the feeling I'm missing something while the official
repo is svn. Well, github pull requests would be nice. That's all.

I too would like the official repositories to move to github eventually,
but I don't see why people would want to fork each other's unoffical
repos before that happens. It would always be somewhat behind
(commit-wise) the official svn one.

Am I missing something?

Mathijs

> Excerpts from Florian Friesdorf's message of Sat Feb 18 16:06:06 +0100 2012:
>> How does your authors.txt differ from maintainers.nix?
> authors.txt is used to rewrite svn user names to emails (which git
> requires). I never compared both. I just took the file from someone else
> in the past adding missing email entries.
>
> But that's not the point - I think we should all base our branches on
> the same git repo sharing history - that's why I offer access to my SSH
> account so that people can push and share their ideas.
>
> I hesitated moving to github because all "forks" would contain "froked
> from" info - and I didn't want to look like the "initial author" of
> nixpkgs - because I'm not. That's why I hesitated from uploading to
> github. But its a fact that at least some (if not the majority) would
> prefer using git for various reasons (even though some users could also
> imagine using other tools such as monotone, fossil or mercurial).
>
> So I appreciate this (unofficial) step - just want to coordinate that
> this doesn't happen over and over again.
>
> Marc Weber
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