[Kde-scm-interest] initial port of scripty to git is ready

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu May 21 20:17:23 CEST 2009


A Dijous, 21 de maig de 2009, Thomas Zander va escriure:
> On Thursday 21. May 2009 15.16.05 Ian Monroe wrote:
> > > 3. There is no 'git push' back into the main repository from scripty's
> > > clone
>
> That should be added then; ;)
> some algorithm along the lines of
>   while (!git push) {
>     if (!git pull --rebase) { # sorry, not working out...
>      git reset --hard origin/master;
>      quit;
>     }
>   }
>
> > So that we're on the same page... scripty still needs to work with
> > i18n in SVN. I was a little concerned when you said its a "git port"
> > when its really more of a "git feature addition." I guess I should've
> > dented immediately. :)
> >
> > The idea is that for Amarok or Plasma to switch to git tomorrow, i18n
> > needs to stay in SVN. (Possibly i18n could stay in SVN forever, they
> > have a very different way of doing things and switching to git should
> > be up to them.)
>
> It would be great to have the functionality in place for amarok/plasma to
> go git.
> I'm a bit confused about the conclusion we don't want to have i18n in git.

What we don't want is i18n in svn AND i18n in git. We want a single place to 
translate things.

Let's not make translators life harder to make programmers life easier.

Albert

> There are loads of solutions to migrate, including having nice GUI tools so
> the user never need to see a command line.
> Keeping svn seems a bit odd to me; an opt-out solution. Not solving the
> problem but avoiding it with the side effect of having to keep an svn
> server up and running :/
>
> So, like Matt I was under the impression we wanted to port script to
> basically do exactly what it did before, but now using git.




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