On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Antoine Musso <has...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 27/08/2014 10:13, Sandro Tosi a écrit : > <snip> >> Offline commits? how many time (for real..) you badly needed it? i >> guess so few that if you (for one time) just do a big commit instead >> of a storm of micro commit the world wont stop > > As a side effect, that also mean you don't have to use a potentially > lagged network connection when doing simple operations. There is > nothing I hate more than waiting for network when using the commands > log, commit or blame.
I rarely need to use log, and I used to work on the svn repo on a 56k lines no later than 2 years ago, so I know what means a slow network. Still I was able to do quite a lot of work. would it be possible having the whole history of packages in git? i highly doubt so :) >> is there anything else so "attractive" about git? > > Cheap local branches which let you pill up work in progress patches / > rewrite without having to keep several copy of the same svn repo. The > branches in git are just a name pointing to a commit in the tree. > > The stash, which let you save your uncommited changes and come back to > them later (think of it as lightweight branches). That is really nice > when you have to interrupt your workflow, stash it, handle the > interrupt, reapply your stash and resume work. > > Tags can be signed with gpg. They are a pointer to a commit just like > branches, and hence don't force you to do a full copy to create a tag. > > Switching between branches is a breeze and does not need network access > either. I was referring to attractive features of git in regarding to Debian packaging >> If we don't define *upfront* what are the problems we currently have >> and that we want to solve, then we're just proposing a technical >> exercise without a real gain. and I cant stress this point never >> enough. > > I agree there, would be nice to list the problems with svn. But I guess > most of them are related to svn being a bad (and slow) CSV system. well, let's first see the list of problems/features we have/want and then let's talk later of the solutions to them, not the other way around Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAB4XWXy3gJfOMAdys=LjXPK=rtjdv1ux-lfg3fmdkbyiin6...@mail.gmail.com
