Re: Proposal: Switch back to savannah using GIT

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 29 May 2015, at 12:11, David Chisnall <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 29 May 2015, at 11:41, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Since we have an advanced make system,
> 
> Hahahaha!  Oh, sorry, you were serious.

Boring ... we all know you hate gnustep-make because it's tailored to the needs 
of the GNUstep project rather than to your needs.  The religious reaction to 
mentions of it get tedious.

>> make dist, if you are on a quickie
>> make svn-tag && make svn-dist, if you want to do it nice.
> 
> Okay, where does this upload the tarball to?  Or do I now need to add tarball 
> hosting to the requirements of a hosting provider as well?

Building a tarball and hosting for download are two separate issues.
GNUstep stuff is hosted at ftp.gnustep.org and mirrored to FSF sites 
automatically.
For automated hosting at github to be an advantage, we'd have to be moving over 
to github and away from the FSF; probably what you want

> Oh, and this doesn’t actually do what I do (and what is best practice to do) 
> to ensure a clean release tarball, which is tar up the result of svn export, 
> to ensure that the tarball exactly matches the contents of svn.  Instead, it 
> deletes some files, hoping that it gets everything.

Actually this is FUD (untrue/mistaken); gnustep-make *does* do an svn export to 
produce a clean tar ball (as far as I know it always ... since we moved to svn 
... has).
Before svn was used, gnustep-make did the same kind of thing for cvs (and afaik 
support for that is still there), so it's been around for a very long time.
There's no reason it shouldn't have similar support for git added if it hasn't 
already been done.