[rb-general] Moving the source-date-epoch spec git repo

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Feb 22 23:31:18 CET 2017


On Wed 2017-02-22 14:55:00 -0500, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Rather than having both
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/source-date-epoch-spec.git
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/build-path-prefix-map-spec.git
>
> I was thinking of putting both into
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/standards.git
>
> which would also include the code and test cases that I have in my github at the moment.

why combine the two repos?

why use a URL with /cgit/ instead of plain /git/ ?

I like the idea that the repos would contain both standards and code and
test cases, that's great.

But it seems like inclusion of code and test cases could be done without
merging the two repos.

merging the repos also mixes up the history a little bit -- someone
interested in archaeology of how we got to the endpoint of a specific
standard needs to filter out edits to the other standard as well.  Not
impossible to do (i'm assuming that you're importing all the git history
From both repos), but it's a minor annoyance.

So my inclination is to keep the two standards in separate repos, but if
there's a specific reason to merge them, you should go for it.

Thanks for driving this process, Ximin.

         --dkg
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