Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 10, 2005, 20:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4q6kxm9c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4373AE02.9050909@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

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> Jim Radford wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:14:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>>   I think archimport part needs to be split out just like its
>>>   svn/cvs cousins,
>> I don't agree...
>
> How is this different for when svnimport and cvsimport was moved out?..
>
>> The main reason I see for splitting cvs and email import out is the
>> non-standard dependencies, cvsps and perl(Email::Valid).
>
> Define "non-standard". String::ShellQuote isn't installed by default on 
> Fedora Core 3 but is required by git-archimport.

I am with Andreas here.

If you are using git to manage development in a tightly knitted group (e.g. company internal project) and are unlikely to be exchanging email patches, not having to pull Email::Valid into your system is a good thing, because you would not be using git-mail. If you are not dealing with development history stored in svn or tla, not having to install git-svn nor git-tla is a good thing.

Technical reasons like package availablity and required package size count, but I do not think we should be doing the split purely for technical reasons. The split should aim primarily to give convenience for the users.

That reminds me, Andreas, you said something about feeding me spec updates last week but Jim beated you. I am open to improvements from both of you. Obviously the invitation is not limited to two of you ;-).