From: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
Subject: [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 08/16] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the text on adding binary files to the tree #558642
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 02:55:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453017319-2459-9-git-send-email-gokturk@binghamton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453017319-2459-1-git-send-email-gokturk@binghamton.edu>
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>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-17 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-17 7:55 [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 00/16] devmanual: update the docs for post git-migration #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 01/16] general-concepts/manifest: drop the use of "CVS keyword expansion" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 02/16] general-concepts/mirrors: substitute "CVS" with "the git tree" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 03/16] general-concepts/tree: substitute "CVS" with "git" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 04/16] general-concepts/tree: replace the mention of ChangeLog #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 05/16] ebuild-writing/misc-files: replace the code for cvs commit with git #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 06/16] ebuild-writing/user-submitted: do not put user information in ChangeLog #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 07/16] appendices/editor-configuration/emacs: remove the CVS related setting #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` Gokturk Yuksek [this message]
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 09/16] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on commit policy for git #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 10/16] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on upgrading ebuilds " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 11/16] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on moving " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 12/16] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on removing " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 13/16] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on removing packages " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 14/16] ebuild-maintenance: replace "cvs commit" with "git commit" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 15/16] general-concepts/git-to-rsync/diagram: update the description for git #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 7:55 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 16/16] " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-17 15:59 ` [gentoo-doc] [PATCH 00/16] devmanual: update the docs for post git-migration #558642 Sven Vermeulen
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