[Openchrome-devel] Code is moving to git on freedesktop.org

[James Simmons]

>       On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:14:50PM +0100, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>       > Hi,
>       >
>       > The openchrome Xorg driver subversion repository has been moved to git
>       > on freedesktop.org.
>       > All the history, branches and tags have been kept.
>       >
>       > ?From now on, please use the following command to checkout the code :
>       > git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/openchrome/xf86-video-openchrome
>       >
>       > The openchrome DRM tree has moved too.
>       > Please use the following command to checkout the code :
>       > git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/openchrome/drm-openchrome
>       >
>       > Both repositories can be browsed here :
>       > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/openchrome
>       >
>       > I'll be updating the wiki in the next days.
>       >
>       > Regards,
>       > Xavier
> 
> Switching to git is a good news, the other day you were talking about
> doing a release (for a packaging that was not using svn snapshot if I
> remember well).
> I'm thinking that a new release could also help the versioning of debian
> packages, today it is: 0.2.904+svn920 where 0.2.904 is the release and
> 920 the svn snapshot revision.
> If the release changes, this would allow to go for any valid numbering
> for the git snapshots. But if it does not change I must find somthing
> that will be grater than +svn920.
> For instance ++git20120130 or +xgit20120130 but not +git20120130
> (as g < s).
> 
> In other words, a new release would help my motivation to switch to git
> :)
...

> Am I still able to do it if I use Ubuntu? If that's OK, I might be 
>able to help.

Since debain packaging was being done do you have the debian directory 
with config files for me to create debian package out of the box. We 
should do this for rpms as well.