Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [OT/NIT] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Er, you can't be seriously suggesting we will drop repoman checks with
> the migration to git? I don't see how that would benefit anyone.
>

Interesting point.  One thing to keep in mind with git is that commits
don't affect the "central repository."  Pushes are what impacts the
repository.

If I spend six months working on a bunch of coordinated package
changes, nobody will see a thing until I push those commits and 500
ebuilds all change atomically (not that I'm suggesting that lack of
communication is to be encouraged).  A repoman check on a commit may
not reflect its impact six months later when it actually hits the main
tree.

The right time to run repoman is probably right before doing a push,
regardless of when any git commits were made.  That isn't to say that
it can't be run sooner.

So, splitting something up into multiple commits can be very
lightweight, if repoman is only run before the push.  This might
create a need to be able to run repoman on more than one package
directory, but on less than the entire tree (otherwise you'll end up
having to do another pull/rebase before you push anyway).

Rich