Re: pushing patches to an imap folder

From: Mike McCormack <mike@codeweavers.com>
Date: Nov 16, 2005, 01:53 UTC
Message-ID: <437A9109.6010101@codeweavers.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmo5ka20.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Wow.  How is the acceptance by wine community?  Favorable, I
> hope.

wine.git hasn't been announced on any of the wine mailing lists yet. As long as we don't get rid of CVS entirely, I don't think there'll be too many complaints. Hopefully when it's announced, we'll have a few GIT users who can tell people why it's good to use.

> git-cvsexportcommit?  I haven't had a chance to use it myself,
> although I have to interoperate with CVS in some projects.
> Martin, do you want to do a plug (or brag) here?

git-cvsexportcommit looks nice. I guess Alexandre is using something like that now. I was thinking more ambitiously... something like a git-cvsd. That would be a pretty awesome migration tool :)

> It is handy, especially for simple things like rebasing topic
> branches, when the things are of managable size without using
> quilt or StGIT.  Do you manage binary files?

No, there's no binary files in the Wine CVS (or symlinks ;).

> Yes, I saw that value there.  Maybe adding hooks to format-patch
> so that it can do form-letter-ish things you had to add there
> without patching might help?  I dunno.

I'll have a go at integrating my code with format-patch. Hooks for a template would be helpful.

Mike