Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] Check gnulib out with git rather than CVS.

[Eric Blake]

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According to James Youngman on 11/27/2007 4:29 AM:
> diff --git a/doc/find-maint.texi b/doc/find-maint.texi
> index 5f176f1..c025452 100644
> --- a/doc/find-maint.texi
> +++ b/doc/find-maint.texi
> @@ -484,7 +484,9 @@ GNU libc system with a bug in the regex implementation.
>  @section How and Why we Import the Gnulib Code
>  Gnulib does not have a release process which results in a source
>  tarball you can download.  Instead, the code is simply made available
> -by CVS.
> +by GIT.   The code is also available via @code{git-cvspserver}, but
> +since that lacks working support for @code{cvs update -D}, we don't
> +use it.

git might fix this in the future.  How about s/lacks working support/\$ as
of this writing/, to add some future-proofing?

>  @item Check out a copy of the Gnulib source
> -An easy way to do this is to simply use @code{cp -ar} on the
> address@hidden directory.   Have the Gnulib code checked out
> -somewhere @emph{outside} your working CVS tree for findutils.
> +An easy way to do this is to use @code{git clone} to clone a local
> +gnulib repository you already generated with @code{import-gnulib.sh}.
> +Have the Gnulib code checked out somewhere @emph{outside} your working
> +CVS tree for findutils.

I think the import-gnulib.sh should probably use a shallow clone to cut
down on network bandwidth usage; but that means that cloning the
gnulib-git directory into an external git directory won't work.  So maybe
this paragraph should be revisited.

> +Update the findutils file @file{import-gnulib.config} to specify git
> +commit which is after the point at which the bug fix was committed to
> +Gnulib.  You can do this with @code{git show HEAD}.

I'm wondering if git rev-parse HEAD is better here.

> +that we were relying on to fix the bug.   Make sure you checkjed

s/checkjed/checked/

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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