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From:	Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:	Re: [geda-user] git mirror of gedasymbols.org
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:47:18 +0000
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Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de> writes:
> John Doty schrieb am 18. November 2012:
>
>> > My git cvs-import is      s s s s o o o o    s s s l l l o o o o w w
>> > w w w=20=20
>>=20
>> That's not what I'm talking about, and I don't understand why you
>> would want to import the whole gedasymbols website into your git
>> repository.
>
> Because other users do viable symbols and footprints, too. And because I
> don't want to loose access to said symbols and footprints if a storm
> hits some place on the other side of the globe.

I think you guys might be talking past each other. I'm a bit of a git
fanboy, but I've been following this discussion quite closely and I
think I understand DJ's point of view.

As far as I can see, Kai-Martin is concerned with the possibility of
gedasymbols going down and also with integrating his local git
development tree with the stuff uploaded to gedasymbols.

John's point is that other people's symbols/footprints don't logically
need to be in ones own development tree. If I understand him correctly,
his model of how gedasymbols works is that you make symbols and
footprints on your machine and then when you upload them to gedasymbols,
you're basically publishing them. Then the versioning that CVS allows
isn't particularly relevant, but doesn't hurt.

Please tell me if I've got your positions wrong!

Now, as far as I can see, it's not too difficult to make both of you
happy :-)

CVS is indeed slow, but presumably no-one needs the development history
for others' symbols. As such, DJ could stick a cron job on
gedasymbols.org that makes a downloadable snapshot of the current
repository (minus CVS directories) once a day. Then people using git
could just download "the rest" in one go.

I'm not sure how big the entire lot is, but if it's enormous, maybe it
would be worth setting up rsync. I wouldn't bother if the repository is
under 10mb though.

With this easy change, we're still using CVS. Developers can set up
their accounts to just push to the CVS subdirectory, which will be very
quick. But it's easy to have a personal copy of the entire contents.
(off-continent backups, yeah!)

Comments?

Rupert

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