> Can you explain how it would have made your life easier for rebasing > code if we were using Git instead of SVN?
First off - maybe because I am not a SVN expert. But my experience has shown me that where I have had to struggle with SVN to manage branches, individual commit cherry picks and merging, git "just did it". Today again, I had to manually reformat the patch to apply it to trunk. Again, I am not a heavy SVN user, I switched to git when I started with "advanced" repo stuff. With git, my workflow would be: - clone repo - checkout tag 3.1.7 - apply external patch - commit - rebase to HEAD - format patch and send it (or even better, send a pull request) Do you see a comparatively easy approach in SVN where original patch just won't apply because code offsets were through the roof compared to context included in a diff and manual page states you can't increase fuzz factor (offset search) above number of context lines? Fact is - occasional contributors will usually not bother creating patches against trunk in the first place, but against code they have at hand and which they are trying to "fix". Complicating the patch submission procedure will only decrease the number of patches flowing upstream. Take care, b. PS: These are just personal thoughts, nothing more. I just realised I am much like you for one of my OSS mini projects, but then again I assumed, that unlike mine project, ganglia consumes relevant part of your work life, which may not be the case. b. On 22 March 2011 01:27, Bernard Li <bern...@vanhpc.org> wrote: > Hi Bostjan: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Bostjan Skufca <bost...@a2o.si> wrote: > >> Heh, my first reaction was "He must be joking..." :) >> Anyway, done. However rebasing patches with SVN is major PITA and you >> should consider yourself lucky that I persisted:) >> Do you plan moving onto something better (hg, git)? > > I am glad you persisted, and thanks again. We'll look into it shortly. > > We have thought about moving to Git but not really sure if now is the > right time to do it -- at least I do not see it buying us much at this > point. > > Can you explain how it would have made your life easier for rebasing > code if we were using Git instead of SVN? > > Thanks, > > Bernard > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
