[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Ruler-21

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Sat Oct 27 11:57:47 EDT 2012


On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/~flavio/ruler/rulergtk3
>>
>> This raises an issue. I have not been consistent about where I have
>> been putting the gtk-3 branches of my activities. Many of the ports
>> are made by 3rd parties who make their own clones of the project and
>> then I help them on those branches.
>>
>> I have been putting the .tar.bz files on d.sl.o and uploading the .xo
>> files to a.sl.o, but it seems you need the .git to be in a particular
>> place?
>
> Thats going to be annoying for contributors who now have to go an
> extra few steps to find the git tree that they should base new work
> on.
>
> My suggestion would be to put GTK3 ports in master branches in the
> main repositories, and use a branch in the same repository for any
> GTK2 work.
>
> Daniel

Do you know any magic git foo that would enable me to do the following?

Before:
Master == GTK2
Clone == GTK3

After:
Master == GTK3
Branch == GTK2

-walter

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Walter Bender
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