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

[Randy Dunlap]

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.


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~Randy