From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The Big Switch to Git Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:28:56 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87abl1uved.fsf@gnu.org> <87wso3u12s.fsf@gnu.org> <878x0i2xr7.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87bq53lnlk.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87r6dwjm4n.fsf@ambire.localdomain> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206628532 16818 80.91.229.12 (27 Mar 2008 14:35:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:35:32 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 27 15:35:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JetAo-0000du-B5 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:33:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JetAC-0002Ww-OP for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JetA0-0002Tq-Kp for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:32:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jet9z-0002TE-1X for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:32:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jet9y-0002T7-Te for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:32:54 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jet9y-0007H3-2a for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:32:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jet9q-0006FW-7d for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:32:47 +0000 Original-Received: from 201.80.50.92 ([201.80.50.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:32:46 +0000 Original-Received: from hanwen by 201.80.50.92 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:32:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.80.50.92 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) In-Reply-To: <87r6dwjm4n.fsf@ambire.localdomain> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7103 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen escreveu: > I urge you to reconsider. It's no big deal to import them and leave them be > (for historians). You can even make them read-only. this is a non-issue. You can do the import to a seperate git repo later, and then do a merge into core. This will add all the history of the side-project to core as well. IMO Until there is a need, importing random bitrot is a waste of time, and will confuse newcoming hackers. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen