On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Thomas Perl <thp at perli.net> wrote: > For users just "pulling" from the SVN repository, only the commands > change, everything else would stay basically the same. For users writing > patches, we'd be able to make it easier to merge patches and do > experimental branches. It appears that there are a group of developers who want to extend the capability of rpm to be able to treat modern distributed version control systems as a native "source" for the purposes of rpmbuild operation. The goal being to make it easier for downstream distributors to more closely align with the upstream projects development process, making it possible to more easily merge downstream patches from the distro maintainers. All the dvcs implementations are different, but from what little I've gleamed from the discussion, subversion seems to be more problematic than other competing systems in this regard. If this capability was added in the near future to rpm, and if rpm-based distributions' (like Fedora) buildsystems were to make use of it.. packages whose upstream projects used git would stand to benefit from the change more directly than projects using subversion. But its not something that is going to happen in the immediate future. -jef