Re: gnulib ChangeLog split

2007-03-31 Thread Karl Berry
jim> The desire to retain CVS access (e.g., for Karl :-), I think between you and Bruno you've described the basics well enough. There's no point in waiting for me to try it, since I will never try it until I am forced to. I would like the README to have the most basic commands to get the wo

Re: gnulib ChangeLog split

2007-03-31 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:33:21AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > The desire to retain CVS access (e.g., for Karl :-), and the fact that it > will have to be via git-cvsserver to provide at least read-only pserver > access, means I'll have to exercise a certain amount of due diligence, > too. I'll h

Re: gnulib ChangeLog split

2007-03-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl, Jim Meyering wrote: > But that would require a certain amount of hand-holding and updating > FAQ/etc. Here is a possible patch to http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ . --- gnulib.html.bak 2007-03-31 14:41:59.0 +0200 +++ gnulib.html 2007-03-31 14:48:08.0 +0200 @@ -41,11

Re: gnulib ChangeLog split

2007-03-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karl Berry asked: >> The ChangeLog file is over a megabyte now, and I'm still stuck on dialup >> sometimes. Can we split it to, say, ChangeLog.1997-2006 and just keep >> 2007 in the active file? > > I believe that the size of the ChangeLog becomes insigni

Re: gnulib ChangeLog split

2007-03-30 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry asked: > The ChangeLog file is over a megabyte now, and I'm still stuck on dialup > sometimes. Can we split it to, say, ChangeLog.1997-2006 and just keep > 2007 in the active file? I believe that the size of the ChangeLog becomes insignificant once we switch to 'git' as primary version