Re:Gittup, a Linux distro on top of Git
by dahart on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:23AM
(#16015657)
I'll admit it started skeptical based on the headline, but reading the page, I changed my mind, this seems like something worth at least trying to see what package management feels like. It'd be pretty cool if something like this could help smooth out package version incompatibilities.
In particular this idea is intriguing (and the honesty about not having tried it is appreciated):
> Bisection!
> Let's say your compy86 is running fine, and then you update to get the latest, and something breaks. You can use git bisect across your entire linux distribution to find the commit that broke it.
> Note: It may not work across config changes, since tup doesn't automatically run 'oldconfig' when necessary.
> Note: I've never actually tried this, so we'll just assume it works.
In particular this idea is intriguing (and the honesty about not having tried it is appreciated):
> Bisection!
> Let's say your compy86 is running fine, and then you update to get the latest, and something breaks. You can use git bisect across your entire linux distribution to find the commit that broke it.
> Note: It may not work across config changes, since tup doesn't automatically run 'oldconfig' when necessary.
> Note: I've never actually tried this, so we'll just assume it works.