Re: OpenLDAP git repo - HEADS UP

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hello Howard,
>
> Am 23.03.2011 um 23:02 schrieb Howard Chu:
> > Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> > > Am 14.03.2010 um 00:31 schrieb Howard Chu:
> > > > Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > > > > Out of several rumors I've heard that OpenLDAP converted it
> > > > > source repo to git. Is that true? www.openldap.org still
> > > > > speaks about cvs. If you changed to git, is the repo
> > > > > publically available?
> >
> > > I noticed you set up
> > >    https://github.com/openldap/openldap
> > > which have commits up to 2010-10-12. Are there any plans to reactivate
> > > syncing from CVS to this repository or is it abandoned?
> >
> > Actually I don't know who setup the repo on github.com. Anyway, things have progressed. Read-only repos are now available on git.openldap.org. You can
> > also browse them at http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi .
> >
> > We will do one final release from CVS before switching over completely to git.
> > So after 2.4.25 is released, the CVS repos will be read-only.
> >
> > As usual, info on accessing the source repositories is at
> > http://www.openldap.org/software/repo.html

Please also note that our Contributing guidelines have changed:

http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html

Since git gives us ready made tools for patch management, we would prefer that 
patch submissions be generated using git format-patch.

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