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Date:      Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:06:53 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com>, flz@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?
Message-ID:  <1238656013.20670.5.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <49D3CB38.7040600@telenix.org>
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On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 16:14 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
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> Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 22:36 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
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> > I recently got kde4.2 working on my home box, and all the neat eye cand=
y things
> > that are added, I'll have to see, maybe you're right, XFree86 might not=
 work
> > with KDE, but saying that XFree86 hasn't had an update since December m=
akes no
> > sense to me, versus the fact that I *think* git allows no release tags,=
 so I
> > think one could argue that there are no Xorg releases at all.  That, or=
 I don't
> > know git well enough, either is possible.  If there are tags in git, I =
will go
> > back and reread the git docs until I find them.
> >=20
> >> git has tags and branches, all of which can be checked out from fd.o.
> >> AFAIK, things aren't tagged for "Xorg releases", but all of the packag=
es
> >> carry tags and some have release branches.
>=20
> I was hoping I would get an answer on this.  It is indeed a feature of gi=
t, or
> has it been grafted on by convention?  If git's got it, I'll drop this
> particular topic, and try to find the command I must have missed.  If tho=
se
> features are done by convention, I guessed I was relying on the git man p=
ages,
> and just didn't look hard enough at the web pages for Xorg to spot the in=
fo.
> I've been a bit critical of git in my mind, and need to get myself either
> justified or corrected.

GIT-TAG(1)

git has a lot of nice features... It also has it's weak points in my
mind.  Generally the biggest advantage and disadvantage is the
distributed nature of git.  It is very convenient to make local commits
and rebase and keep local branches, but I think it leads to chaos if it
isn't controlled.  Everyone has a master repo.

I pretty regularly use cvs, svn and git these days, covering all my
different corners of hell...

robert.

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