Re: [Quilt-dev] Converted to git; version 0.48

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Monday, 2 February 2009 17:19:46 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:04:21 +0100 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > to make working with the quilt repository more enjoyable, I have switched
> > from cvs to git. The entire history has been preserved. You can reach the
> > repository at http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/quilt.git for browsing,
> > or you can clone the repositore as follows for anonymous access:
> >
> >   git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/quilt.git
> >
> > For write access to the repository, as with cvs previously, you have to
> > register your ssh public key in your Savannah user configuration. After
> > that, clone the repository with:
> >
> >   git clone ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/quilt.git
> >
> > The git repository is identical with the latest version of the cvs
> > repository, with the following changes (you will see those changes in the
> > topmost commit):
> >
> >  * I have converted the .cvsignore files to .gitignore.
> >
> >  * The tarball name that "make snapshot" produces will now be similar to
> > what you get with "git describe --tags", e.g.,
> > quilt-0.47-9-g039329a.tar.bz2, quilt-0.48.tar.bz2,
> > quilt-0.48-dirty.tar.bz2, etc.
> >
> >  * I have tagged the initial git tree is version 0.48.
> >
> > From an anonymous, read-only user, little changes except that "git clone"
> > is necessary for the initial checkout, and from within the checked-out
> > git repository, "git pull" will fetch the latest upstream version. (Git
> > goes a long way beyond that of course; http://git-scm.com/documentation
> > is a good place t start reading.)
> >
> > I have disabled cvs in the project configuration. Checked-out versions of
> > the old repository still appear to be functional though, I hope that will
> > stop soon: otherwise, I'll ask the Savannah admins to disable the old cvs
> > repository so that people won't falsely assume that they have the latest
> > version.
>
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/quilt/
> contains versions 0.26 - 0.47.  Please continue to put tarballs
> there and not required users to have/use git.

Done for 0.48; thanks for the reminder.

Hmm ... looking at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quilt.git, the git web 
interface also offers to download tarballs, and stupid enough they also end 
up being called quilt-$version.tar.gz. These git snapshots don't contain 
generated files such as configure, and they are not the releases.

This name clash is quite annoying. Maybe renaming the release tags to 
something like v$version will fix it.

Andreas