comments about git

[Cantor, Scott]

On 2/25/13 9:34 PM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

>So, is the hosted repo worth doing ?

I did it so I could share working state across two laptops, and four
partitions. For that, it worked ok once I got the hang of it. It didn't
work well because git is just ugly and not at all like svn, but it worked.

I can't say how well it will work to allow code review, but I don't think
it would be that complex.

>Here is a picture, seems complicated :
>
>http://blog.tfnico.com/2010/11/git-svn-mirror-for-multiple-branches.html

I think that's overkill to try and automate everything and prevent
problems that you can clear up by just recloning or rebasing periodically.

Unless we're switching, which we're not, the point isn't to have us all
collaborating with git, it's just to make work in development available
for review or to keep it out of svn while something gets finished.

Do we need it? No, but all of us seem to have the problem of avoiding
frequent svn check-ins while we're building things, which is limiting for
review. Whether having the git option will help or not, I don't know. I
tend to doubt it. I suppose if you spend a lot of time thinking "I wish I
could just branch", then you'd find it to be helpful. I just don't work
that way, so that wasn't a benefit for me.

-- Scott