[Nix-dev] Nixpkgs and NixOS moved to GitHub

[Kirill Elagin]

2012/6/22 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>

> Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> skribis:
>
> > On 21/06/12 17:07, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >
> >>> A hybrid policy is of course also possible.  I.e. uncontroversial
> changes (such
> >>> as minor package upgrades in Nixpkgs) can go directly into the master,
> while
> >>> other things should be done in a branch and submitted for review.
>  This of
> >>> course depends on people exercising good judgment :-)
> >>
> >> That sounds good to me.  Perhaps those who had SVN access could get Git
> >> access too, as was suggested.  The main issue would be excessive merge
> >> commits when the history would have otherwise been linear.
> >
> > Eh, I don't see the connection between those two sentences :-)
>
> If many can commit, it seems likely that we’ll end up with many merge
> commits.
> Whereas, if (say) you’re the only one, the history will be linear (but
> of course, nobody would want that!).
>
Hello, this is git. Why are you against merge commits? Some smart people
even add --no-ff to `git merge` to get a merge commit when the merge is
resolved as ff.
Basically this is all about policies and I'd like to write another letter
on this, but I really do not have much time right now, so, maybe, later. In
short: since NixOS might turn into a really large project one day and, as I
know it is already used on servers, security must be a priority, so we
probably want sign-offs.

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Кирилл Елагин
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