[bug-gsrc] Re: Nix on ‘fencepost’

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Brian,

Brian Gough <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to update my nixpkgs-libre repo to try the script. Do I
> need to have topgit installed now?

No.

> Every time I do a pull I get an error.

I just changed the Nixpkgs-libre repo so that it would contain upstream
Nixpkgs as well, not only the Nixpkgs-libre branch.  See the ‘readme’ at
<http://repo.or.cz/w/nixpkgs-libre.git>.

The rationale is:

  1. It seemed useful to provide the upstream git-svn branches.  It
     allows other users to run ‘git svn rebase’, ‘tg update’, etc.

  2. TopGit apparently wouldn’t work if the branches had a different
     name (before I was pushing my local ‘t/nixpkgs-libre’ branch, which
     is based on my local ‘master’, to ‘master’ there).

I don’t see Nixpkgs moving to Git in the foreseeable future, so the
situation will remain this way.

On a related note, perhaps we can start thinking about moving it to
Savannah.

Thanks,
Ludo’.