From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 08/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the text on adding binary files to the tree #558642
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:44:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160124184403.b5799ee40dc51d3006577e67@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160124150031.GH6302@ultrachro.me>
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:00:31 +0100 Patrice Clement wrote:
> Sunday 24 Jan 2016 03:46:02, Gokturk Yuksek wrote :
> > Remove the paragraph about adding binary files to CVS.
> > Replace the instances of CVS with git.
> >
> > X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558642
> > Signed-off-by: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
> > ---
> > ebuild-maintenance/text.xml | 19 +++----------------
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml b/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
> > index ac68dcd..10709ea 100644
> > --- a/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
> > +++ b/ebuild-maintenance/text.xml
> > @@ -42,22 +42,9 @@ above 20KB) which should be distributed as tarballs via the
> > <uri link="::general-concepts/mirrors/#suitable-download-hosts">Gentoo mirror system</uri>
> > so that people do not waste excessive amounts of bandwidth and hard drive
> > space. Also, you should not add binary (non-ASCII) files to the
> > -Portage CVS tree. If you need to do this in another CVS tree, for
> > -example, if you need to add a small PNG graphic for whatever reason,
> > -be sure to add it to CVS by using the <c>-kb</c> option, like so:
> > -</p>
> > -
> > -<pre caption="Adding binary files to CVS">
> > -# <i>cvs add -kb myphoto.png</i>
> > -</pre>
> > -
> > -<p>
> > -The <c>-kb</c> option tells CVS that <path>myphoto.png</path> is a binary
> > -file and should be treated specially. For example, merging the
> > -differences between two different versions of this file should not be
> > -allowed to happen, for obvious reasons. Also, speaking of merging
> > +git tree. Also, speaking of merging
> > changes, any patches you add to Portage should generally <e>not</e> be
> > -compressed. This will allow CVS to merge changes and correctly inform
> > +compressed. This will allow git to merge changes and correctly inform
> > developers of conflicts.
> > </p>
> >
> > @@ -149,7 +136,7 @@ simply, <path>1.0-gentoo.diff</path>. Also note that the
> > <path>gentoo</path> extension informs people that this patch was created
> > by us, the Gentoo Linux developers, rather than having been grabbed from a
> > mailing list or somewhere else. Again, you should not compress these
> > -patches because CVS does not play well with binary files.
> > +patches because git does not play well with binary files.
> > </p>
> >
> > <p>
> > --
> > 2.4.10
> >
> >
>
> "Again you should not compress these patches because git does not play well
> binary files".
>
> I'm not sure this statement still holds true with git. Does it?
What about repoman checks? Will it still yell at >20 kB patches?
Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-24 8:45 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 00/19] devmanual: update the docs for post git-migration Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 01/19] general-concepts/manifest: drop the use of "CVS keyword expansion" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 02/19] general-concepts/mirrors: substitute "CVS" with "the git tree" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 03/19] general-concepts/tree: substitute "CVS" with "git" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 04/19] general-concepts/tree: replace the mention of ChangeLog #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 05/19] ebuild-writing/misc-files: replace the code for cvs commit with git #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 06/19] ebuild-writing/user-submitted: do not put user information in ChangeLog #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 07/19] appendices/editor-configuration/emacs: remove the CVS related setting #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 08/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the text on adding binary files to the tree #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 15:00 ` Patrice Clement
2016-01-24 15:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2016-01-24 15:44 ` Andrew Savchenko [this message]
2016-01-24 23:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Göktürk Yüksek
2016-01-25 0:51 ` Brian Dolbec
2016-01-24 16:38 ` Göktürk Yüksek
2016-01-24 17:17 ` James Le Cuirot
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 09/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on commit policy for git #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 10/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on upgrading ebuilds " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 11/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on moving " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 12/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on removing " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 13/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on removing packages " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 14/19] ebuild-maintenance: replace "cvs commit" with "git commit" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 15/19] general-concepts/git-to-rsync/diagram: update the description for git #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 16/19] " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 17/19] ebuild-writing/misc-files: remove ChangeLog section #485314 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-25 0:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2016-01-25 1:02 ` Göktürk Yüksek
2016-01-25 1:13 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-01-25 8:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-01-27 4:19 ` Göktürk Yüksek
2016-01-27 7:12 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 18/19] tools-reference: remove the echangelog page #485314 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 19/19] general-concepts/tree: remove the reference to the ChangeLog #485314 Gokturk Yuksek
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