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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] sources/contrib
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:58:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <246b8146635847a31a59822f690b4eba@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920711201031p466b9063mf283acc54c2976e6@mail.gmail.com>

> > replica was already there,
> 
> I don't like replica, it is too fragile and too slow, but I don't
> think my opinion on this matters much.
> 
> (Now that we have python we could use hg... although I fail to quite
> see the issue with plain tarballs)

might depend on what you're doing.

when updating something on sources, i find it much easier
to copy the few modified files than to fiddle around making
a tarball. i also appreciate being able to use standard tools
on the beast in place like diff, history, etc.

it's been less error-prone for me, too.

- erik


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-20 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-20 15:46 Federico Benavento
2007-11-20 15:53 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-20 15:57   ` Federico Benavento
2007-11-20 18:31     ` Uriel
2007-11-20 18:58       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-11-21  3:08         ` lucio
2007-11-20 19:30       ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-11-20 20:21       ` David Leimbach
2007-11-20 21:09         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-20 21:36         ` Uriel
2007-11-20 21:46           ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-20 22:04             ` anyrhine
2007-11-20 23:57             ` Federico Benavento
2007-11-21  0:01               ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-20 22:42           ` David Leimbach
2007-11-20 23:09             ` dave.l
2007-11-20 23:59               ` David Leimbach
2007-11-21  8:23             ` Uriel
2007-11-21 10:06               ` Robert Raschke
2007-11-21 14:30                 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-21 15:33                   ` Uriel
2007-11-21 21:08                   ` Navin Johnson
2007-11-21 22:59                     ` Uriel
2007-11-21 20:55               ` Navin Johnson
2007-11-22 15:44                 ` Russ Cox
2007-11-22 19:48                   ` Uriel
2007-11-21  0:04 ` Steve Simon
2007-11-20 19:29 Erik Quanstrom
2021-01-26 22:01 Pouya Tafti
2021-01-26 22:23 ` sirjofri
2021-01-26 23:10   ` Pouya Tafti
2021-01-26 23:28   ` Pouya Tafti
2021-01-26 22:33 ` David du Colombier

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