From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E678C59CAF for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 09:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5165D21C0A4; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 09:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f178.google.com (mail-ig0-f178.google.com [209.85.213.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0E4321C09E for ; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 09:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f178.google.com with SMTP id g8so18119280igr.0 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 02:24:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to; bh=b1FOqfYPr3aiCZ5uiFvaQdmAAi5zpOdT+YkKnlPrGE0=; b=U6D3O40EuY5Crrk/3Vz7grU0znUKNopkQrSMlpoN/PkRlLAndzlwfMNBaoDiR1I8gs msJJq6AUcMMMkLd1yHBd9EgVnv1qVWa4N7/N4LSNFlgSwn8au8XoBMigYDVnuIxkz6mU ARx5hhxtQWY29S476XHWJTDLHZ+XOVu0i3OqKuEKVodIpK87sHZ8aAdhQQTWIn/qbzRS mplHkYIdyT7d6DfNcXInIId/PxHUQaVcsccnBJYp7T0ohVYDLJB+7IpL4u5xjG5o0VSp YYSRuUNVgesrGZrwO9KiscDMRDy/eVV+7bDuxC2XC/5OSvvji42XSE2KKpuKKnrqtq/+ IFZw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to; bh=b1FOqfYPr3aiCZ5uiFvaQdmAAi5zpOdT+YkKnlPrGE0=; b=CzUPdWXn66NrgehdSmsjkxF0VlAMwx+TuRxAw/vg7ohrdngwZ+CI1ZUKUUZADlUXGW xRtl1zNv6xFLbLItB3R3o2KS7y62pC7FGYuWULOkoa2JaTkCCSuQ5u8cwaFSF6OUsNt5 uK+0Ce/mE0ys4CMsEgPfzg6Ip3ZQxCZs7kcI8PWU4cUN2vutLOjlHnU54076m0vCEDvn u3qkaRTzRQjIRWoJ43oVUBt8WzZCtj+icktB7bYSxK6TOskd1RTQuWXhzT0TSDfQ6Q1Q bSToujEj6/tM9PI97UsVtZGTmJHOcBADoiMvFWK85hjIchCx9r58HUt8nNLUPdd76WqB a6tw== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJKpg19TQxoRXl3oTpeWVKfEIiE0wU9Qe2jMk5FOv0K0fO+JI9+o2uYprk8tFUY/Sbwi44TrJbKpdijolw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.137.33 with SMTP id l33mr14812408iod.27.1459761888994; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 02:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.225.232 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 02:24:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5701D11E.8080601@gentoo.org> References: <22264.15335.14348.781616@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <22273.23505.485029.889112@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <22273.32213.132692.773143@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <5701D11E.8080601@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 05:24:48 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Kyjtyg6AP-DvH6b81uCebGE6rE4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2016-04-10 From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a923bd77-5562-4b5d-8a4c-ce20648bb672 X-Archives-Hash: 745925fa4090902dbe5d39bc3c8cb263 On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:27 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > > An aside: Part of the git migration was converting the cvs history to > git to be available as a graft point [1][2]. Regardless of whether > this is to ultimately become the canonical means of looking up a > package's changelog, can we document how the graft is supposed to be > done/configure the repo accordingly? I'm completely unfamiliar with > git grafting, but [3] suggests that there should be an entry in > .git/info/grafts. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_git_workflow#Grafting_Gentoo_history_onto_the_active_repository > Since I'm unfamiliar with grafting, is there a > reason why we don't ship the repo with this file populated to begin with It is a reference, and if you fetch/clone a git repo you only get the references you explicitly ask for. I've actually tried pushing the reference and while that works you don't get it when you clone unless you ask for it, which is the same effort as just re-creating it. -- Rich