On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Glyn Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Dean, > > 2009/3/4 Dean Michael Berris <[email protected]> >> >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Glyn Matthews <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I'm interested but I don't know a lot about Git. Could you give a list >> > of >> > advantages? >> > >> >> One of the advantages is local commits -- or offline commits -- which >> allows for disconnected development. >> >> Another is the distributed aspect which allows everyone to have a copy >> of the *repository* not just the local copy of the source. So you can >> switch between branches, merge changes easily between and across >> branches, etc. >> >> Yet another is an easy means for developing a release tar-ball with >> the correct changelog from commit messages. :-) > > Sounds good, but I don't think its enough on its own to change the > repository. >
Yeah, now that I think about it more, I agree. :-) >> >> I'm personally using git-svn now with another project, and I'm trying >> out git-svn to develop cpp-netlib further -- I'm thinking of merging >> John's work into the http_integration branch -- and seeing whether I >> can continue his work to support persistent connections and what not. > > Oooh it sounds like progress. Also, don't forget there is some useful URI > code gathering dust that should be merged into trunk. > Oh yes. I'm also thinking of picking it up and adding more tests to it before I merge to http_integration and then into trunk. I want the request object constructor to take a uri object that's constructed (implicitly) from a string or char const *. Hopefully it won't be as hard as I think it would be. ;-) >> >> So if we can stay with svn at Subversion, I don't mind but I >> personally like developing on a Git repository from my VM. ;-) > > > Even if we don't use it for this project, it might make an useful blog post > ;) > Yeah. :-) I might write it one day when I get more into the groove of doing it better. ;-) -- Dean Michael Berris | Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc. blog.cplusplus-soup.com | twitter.com/mikhailberis | linkedin.com/in/mikhailberis | profiles.friendster.com/mikhailberis | deanberris.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Cpp-netlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cpp-netlib-devel
