Thanks for the offer Niklas. I mainly only need -current to maintain a couple of ports though, so no need. Thank you anyways.
2024-01-30T23:35:00Z Niklas Hallqvist <nik...@appli.se>: > > On 2024-01-31 00:20, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2024/01/30 22:58, Johannes Thyssen Tishman wrote: >>> Subject says it all. I'm wondering if using the git conversion of the ports >>> tree[0] is regarded as a good alternative to CVS for working with ports. >>> Are the conversion updates frequent enough to not cause any issues? Do any >>> of you porters use it instead of CVS? Any issues? >>> >>> For the record, I've been using CVS just fine without any problems. I just >>> feel more comfortable with git. >>> >>> [0] https://github.com/openbsd/ports >>> >>> -- Johannes Thyssen Tishman >>> https://www.thyssentishman.com >> They are fairly frequent (currently run hourly, though this may change >> if they start taking too long to run), but don't include the most recent >> commit (CVS commits are not atomic, and the conversion tool is looking >> for a different commit before it will treat the previous one as done) >> so at certain times (especially during tree locks for release) you can >> be waiting a while for a commit to show up. >> >> Also there are no tools which successfully managed to convert branches >> and tags in the OpenBSD CVS repo (we tried everything we could find >> at the time when it was set up, everything which handles them had >> some problem or other, and the range of software has not really expanded >> since) - so the git conversion is limited to dealing with -current only >> and there's no way to work with -stable or releases. >> > I have been manually tagging and branching the stable branches for a couple > of years, as a basis to my personal fork of src, xenocara and ports. And > then I have some scripts trying to carry over the commits made to the stable > branches, but they are not perfect. I guess I could push the tags and > branches to my github, currently they are in a private gitlab only. > I won't commit to support these branches though, but if someone would make > use of them, in the state they are, I will push them. > > /Niklas
