I know a few of us use Git for Apache work. Feel encouraged to lend some feedback to infra.
-David Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: <[email protected]> > From: "Gav..." <[email protected]> > Date: April 2, 2011 11:45:10 PM PDT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Current use of GitHub > Reply-To: [email protected] > > I'm trying to understand the _current_ workflows of those ASF committers > using Git and how the ASF GitHub mirrors tie into that - if at all. > > A fair few projects requested ASF git mirrors and also requested mirrors of > that on GitHub (that 2nd request is now standard with the 1st) > > So far , from projects I've browsed on GitHub, I see a few forks here and > there and a few Pull requests here and there. > That is where it gets fuzzy for me. Obviously, no-one can actually pull in > those pull requests into the Apache/$project repo mirror, so > how are committers applying those pull requests? Are they pulling them into > their own copies of the mirror, converting them into a patch > that svn understands and then applying, if so, how? If not, how else? > > Also, apart from Github, how else are Git only users providing patches to > projects, which patch programs are in use, and of those which > are most used by those projects/committers that need to apply them. > > For those of you that are committers and have direct access to svn, but are > preferring to use Git before then committing your work to svn, > what is your workflow and tools used (whether or not it involves GitHub) > > No deviating into what could happen or what would be a good idea please yet, > this is just a survey on what people are currently actually > doing to incorporate Git into their workflows and how we then get those > applied. > > Thanks > > Gav... > > >
