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Re: git mirror at infradead?
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Bernie Innocenti<bernie@codewiz.org> wrote:
> On 06/09/09 16:17, Jason Merrill wrote:
>> Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>> On 06/07/09 12:40, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>>> Is this mirror an independent conversion from the infradead one (i.e., I
>>>> have to throw away the repo and re-download a full repo? ?Or can I reuse
>>>> objects)?
>>>
>>> It's an independent mirror, and I wouldn't recommend switching to it yet.
>>>
>>> There are permissions problems, and I might end up rsyncing the whole
>>> infradead repository rather than fixing things locally.
>>
>> Please please do *not* rsync the infradead repository. ?The repository
>> on gcc.gnu.org is set up so that I can switch back and forth between
>> pulling from git and using git-svn directly; the infradead repository is
>> not.
>>
>> For one thing, the infradead repository uses svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc,
>> which makes it impossible to use git-svn to check in changes; the
>> gcc.gnu.org git repository uses svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc, as is
>> right and proper. ?Also the remotes are in a different place from where
>> git-svn puts them, though I suppose that's easy enough to adjust when
>> fetching.
>
> I won't re-create the repository from scratch, then.
>
> Though I would still need an updated version of git to enable lots of
> branches and tags without wasting too much hard disk space.
>
> Can a sourceware admin please install (or build) git 1.6.3.x? ?If there
> are concerns of breaking other things, I could install a local copy in
> ~/bin.
+overseers
I don't see a problem doing this (we definitely don't want two
versions installed), but there are real live git projects on
sourceware so we should be a bit careful.