FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

[Adrian Chadd]

On 17 November 2012 23:31, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Git would work well with our workflow. It supports the centralized
> repository model, which the project employs right now.

It may work with your workflow, but it doesn't work with mine. :-)

Right now the source tree isn't very good at building drivers from a
full HEAD checkout on a -9 or -8 running system.

The include paths end up pulling from the local sys/net directory, for
example, rather than falling through to the specified kernel build and
kernel source path.

So at least for me, working almost exclusively in driver/stack land, I
can do  sparse check out of only the bits that I'm working on. It lets
me get work done without having to run an up to date -HEAD (and keep
said install up to date.) I also do development on little old netbooks
with SSDs that would make it prohibitive to checkout multiple git
trees. No, using git on a USB/CF/etc card doesn't work very well
either I'm afraid.

I'm sure there are other use cases.



Adrian