Re: [Flex-devel] Conversion to Git?

[Will E. <wes...@gm...>]

All,

I'm making arrangements to get flex into git so that things like this
can happen way more easily.

The basic plan is this:

* Get a release of flex out so that all the recent bug fixes are in the
  generally available version of flex.

* Get flex imported into git and cleaned up and buildable with the git
* workflow/toolchain. (In particular, I want to move the *.[ch] files
  into an src directory and I want to look at making the test suite more
sane. But I'll also need the git equivalent of cvs2cl, which the
current cvs tree relies on to build new ChangeLog files.)

If this were the sort of change that didn't touch flex in all kinds of
places, it'd be more-or-less easy to do in cvs, but what with all the
changes that Paul has been working on, once I patched the cvs tree, and
made additional changes to continue work on flex, it'd be a mess again,
and branching and remerging in cvs are as Aaron notes, dirty words. Git
rebase, not so much.

--Will

On Tuesday, 10 July 2012,  2:12 pm -0700, Aaron Stone <aa...@se...> wrote:

> In CVS, forking is a dirty word, because merging is extremely hard. In
> git, a fork is simply your workspace, ready o be pulled back to
> mainline. It's a fantastically easier workflow.
> 
> However your point is valid: if mainline flex is in CVS, patches are
> its workflow :/
> 
> On Jul 10, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Paul <pa...@pr...> wrote:
> 
> > I really would rather not effectively fork flex. I would prefer to do
> > whatever is necessary to integrate with the mainline.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 07/10/2012 04:43 PM, ruertar wrote:
> >> On 07/10/2012 04:33 PM, Peter Martini wrote:
> >>> Any thoughts on converting to Git?  Sourceforge already has a
> >>> (empty) git repository for flex, and it's not that difficult to
> >>> convert the CVS repo to Git while preserving all of the history,
> >>> branches, and tags.  (I've done it locally already).
> >>>
> >> I would like this as well.
> >>
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