On 12/06/2018 17:45, Christian Mauderer wrote: > Am 12.06.2018 um 09:29 schrieb Chris Johns: >> On 12/06/2018 17:18, Christian Mauderer wrote: >>> Am 12.06.2018 um 07:08 schrieb Chris Johns: >>>> On 09/06/2018 02:45, Christian Mauderer wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Did you also note Gedares suggestion to move the rtems_waf.git to the >>>>> public repos? Maybe that would be a good idea. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yes I did and it is a good idea. I have move the repo to the top level and >>>> updated cgit's config so it is viewable. >>>> >>>> Will need to update the repos that include this. Please consider the >>>> changes to >>>> do that pre-approved. >>> >>> This change will make it necessary to do a `git submodule sync` for >>> every user in the affected repositories. So maybe it would be a good >>> time to think about another point to avoid a second sync: >>> >>> Do we want to keep the absolute URL or do we want to use relative URLs? >>>> The first one has a longer backward compatibility (relative URLs are >>> there since 2007: https://github.com/git/git/commit/f31a522a2d which >>> should be somewhere between git 1.5 and git 1.6). >>> >>> The second one would allow mirrors that use a mirrored sub-repository too. >>> >> >> What do you think we should do? > > My first guess would have been to use relative URLs. But after I've seen > that this feature is there only since 2012 (1.7.12) (see second mail) > I'm not so sure anymore. > > It seems that there are not too much active distributions left that have > a git < 1.7.12 in the latest release: > > https://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=git&relation=less&pkgver=1.7.12&distrorange=InLatest#pkgsearch > > But on the other hand for example CentOS 6 (which is one of the longest > supported distributions I know of) still has a git 1.7.1. And I would > expect that this is a distribution that has the potential to be used as > a build machine quite often. > > So also relative modules would be a good idea, maybe we should wait for > something around two or three more years (CentOS 6 runs out of support > in 11/2020).
This makes sense. Thanks. > >> >>> By the way: Shouldn't the rtems_waf be mirrored on github too? I think >>> most core-repositories are. >> >> Yes it would be good to have the repo mirrored on git. It is one of the >> hooks in >> list that does this. Anyone with commit access should be able to edit the >> hooks >> and change this. > > But most likely someone belonging to the github RTEMS group has to > create it there first, right? > I suppose so, I do not know. I am a novice github user. Sebastian? Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
