From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2005B158020 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 19:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7D69E0839; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 19:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78C4BE0809 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 19:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <2530532a-d8fe-9523-56cc-2247e83ceb67@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:56:27 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.1 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Current portage will now truncate your repo's git history to 1 Content-Language: en-US From: Florian Schmaus To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fa8d5c29-beda-4d36-881a-2ae90e50e92c X-Archives-Hash: 608e7c5f1cc357e5379aa2475125e645 On 15/12/2022 20.22, Florian Schmaus wrote: > As everyone knows, there is nothing better than to change the workflow > that has served you well over multiple years. But apparently the > PORTDIR_OVERLAY approach works well for others, so I am confident that I > (and others) will be able to make the transition with a minimal amount > of ranting. ;) As it was pointed out that some consider my wording here inappropriate and/or rude, I want to apologize to everyone who was offended by the prior paragraph. I had https://xkcd.com/1172/ in mind when writing it. I was also criticized for not providing a rationale for the behavior change in portage. The motivation is driven by the noble goal to make portage more user friendly and robust. Which I fully support. Just like I support shallow clones per default. I just believe portage should do a better job figuring out if it potentially messes with a "user-owned" repository and adjust its behavior accordingly. In a similar spirit I submitted https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/960 - Flow