On Tuesday 04 August 2009 18:44:29 Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Kern Sibbald said something like: > > We have planned to give all developers write access to the bacula > > github repository. By all developers, I mean the ones that have > > write permission to the SVN. > > That makes sense. > > > Git has many advantages over SVN that I will not go into, but it does > > have at least three disadvanges: > > > > 1. It is far more complex than SVN > > Very true. With great power, comes great complexity...or something like > that. :) > > > 3. It is *way* too easy for a developer to "rewrite" the repository > > history. > > This is true, but I guess the rationale is you expect your "trusted" > developers not to do something stupid to your master repo.
Yes, history has shown that Bacula contributors are very concientious, so I don't expect any of our developers to mess up the repo, but I need to let them know the rules first. Since I didn't plan on writing up some documentation until later, now that the switch has been "forced" on us, I have to get to work ... Kern > > > Despite the above disadvantages, I am totally convinced that there > > are so many advantages of git, that it will significantly improve the > > way Bacula developers work together. > > Certainly. I learned git for a job nearly a year ago, and now prefer it > to SVN. Its zero-cost branches and merging are fantastic, even if you > use a "mostly centralized" development model, as most projects seem to > do. > > > and Source Forge only permits one git repository > > Ah, bummer. > > Thanks for the notes and explanations. > > j ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
