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Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit
From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 09:17:46 +0100
On 6 August 2013 19:11, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:
On 8/6/13 4:18 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote:Currently all the library archives are stored in SVN and if we simplyconvert itto Git anyone cloning the repository would have to download all the libseverchecked in (unless using git clone --depth which imposes otherlimitations).Handling binary files is not exactly where Git shines. There is a separate project, git-annex to support using Git helping file storage, but Windows supportis notperfect according to the project's page [1]. Regarding the libraries I think it would probably be enough to use a downloadable .zip file containing a snapshot of the needed Windows libraries instead of cloning a Subversion/Git repository to the machine. The scripts maintaining thesnapshotcould be stored in Git, of course, but I'm not sure if rethinking the library installation should happen before moving the main codebase to Gerrit.Good point. Ultimately I'd like to get out of the third party package business. At Sharkfest Graham mentioned that Nuget (http://www.nuget.org/) is starting to gain popularity as a way to package development libraries for Windows. I'm hoping we can migrate from what we currently have to a set of scripts that generate packages and upload them to Nuget.org. I was leaning more to Chocolatey (http://http://chocolatey.org/) which is
a helper wrapper around Nuget. However, someone will still have to create the Chocolatey or Nuget packages, I suppose we could create them first ourselves and then try to push them upstream to the library originator.
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- Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit Gerald Combs (Aug 05)
- Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit Bálint Réczey (Aug 06)
- Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit Gerald Combs (Aug 06)
- Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit Graham Bloice (Aug 07)
- Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit Evan Huus (Aug 08)
- Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit Luis EG Ontanon (Aug 08)
- Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit Gerald Combs (Aug 06)
- Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit Bálint Réczey (Aug 06)
- Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit Alexis La Goutte (Aug 07)