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#1 2009-11-23 10:57:38
- corsakh
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GIT and SVN
Sometimes I see two different versions of the same software - one is git and another svn. Whats the basic difference and which one is advised to use?
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#2 2009-11-23 11:05:49
- Allan
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Re: GIT and SVN
The newer one. Generally this is because the project switched from SVN to GIT.
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#3 2009-11-23 11:08:01
- corsakh
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Re: GIT and SVN
I mean in AUR sections and unofficial repositories. Sometimes I see the same versions, but one is git and another is svn.
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#4 2009-11-23 11:16:49
- Ranguvar
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Re: GIT and SVN
Allan is right.
There should usually only be one. It's likely that the project used SVN, and then switched to Git (sometimes vice-versa).
Decide based on which package is most recently uploaded.
The situation should be reported to aur-general@archlinux.org, though, so they can remove the duplicate.
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#5 2009-11-23 11:21:03
- tomk
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Re: GIT and SVN
If the packages are built according to the recommended guidelines for SCM builds, they won't have the same version. SVN packages user the SVN revision number as the version number, GIT packages use the date in YYYMMDD format.
Apart from that, Allan's answer above stands.
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#6 2009-11-23 19:42:49
- Gen2ly
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Re: GIT and SVN
If there is a svn version that isn't being used anymore, it's good to do as Ranguvar suggests and let the AUR maintainers know about it. This can also be done in on the wiki.
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#7 2009-11-23 22:18:04
- chpln
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Re: GIT and SVN
It is possible the two are equally recent, and that one of them is using a git mirror of the official repo (or perhaps a tool such as git-svn). I've noticed several packages in AUR which use git mirrors, although the project uses another VCS officially. emacs-git is one example of this (with emacs-cvs now part of community/).
What is the general feeling towards this? Is it acceptable to also provide a package for a different (read: superior) VCS, or does this create too much clutter?
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