In my recent post, my conclusion preferred Rename over Delete & Add. Now I’ve changed my mind. I looked at the code, and the database. Now I prefer Delete & Add. The database In the database, there is no way to represent the Rename action without modifying the structure of the commit_log_elements table: The change_type […]
for git commits which is better: ‘Rename A to B’ or’ Delete A; Add B’ Read More »
I spent an evening working through the delete issue with git repos. A Twitter thread was the result. Sergey Kozlov came up with some code changes which changed the XML output. Now I think we have a plan. The commit I’m using for a working example was to editors/nvi2 on 27 Jul 2020 01:58:34 –
git – changing libraries gave us new XML options Read More »
I want to document some of the not-visible differences between a git commit and a subversion commit when in the database. subversion git id 808224 808303 message_id 202007091812.069IC6QK044004@repo.freebsd.org a1d2d5b40fba4186daf29b2b2e9ff2dd8b7d8039 message_date 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 message_subject svn commit: r541803 – in head/devel: . py-absl-py [null] date_added 2020-07-09 18:39:53.510006+00 2020-07-09 18:59:49.863092+00 commit_date 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 2020-07-09 18:12:06+00 committer
subversion vs git – in the database Read More »
This is another post in the FreshPorts-git series. Yesterday was good progress. This morning (at Sat Jul 4 13:05:10 UTC 2020) I manually initiated another import of commits from git. It looked like this: This created one XML file for each git commit. The files are dropped into the ~freshports/messages-queues/incoming directory. The freshports-git daemon (well,
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