Hi Ilya,
great to see you on the list.
On Dec 21, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Ilya Sterin wrote:
Hey Hans. How's it going. I've been on the list for the last few
days and figured I'll finally reply.
Hey, any thoughts about migrating and/or utilizing some DVC like git?
I've recently migrated some of my work to git and it seems to be
really easy to use, at least for what I'm doing. One of the things
that really attracts me to DVC, is the ability to pull, merge changes
that are not centralized in order to do integration work. I think
it's a rather useful feature and really good for quality, though it
doesn't force folks to commit changes in order for someone else to
merge them. I've worked on teams (and they were small teams) where
this would of been very useful and we always struggled with cvs and
svn ways. I can imagine the usefulness of this would be far greater
for teams that are relatively big and everyone works on their own
until integration time. What are your thoughts?
It it funny that you are pointing this out. The SVN restructuring is
done, because we are planning such a move right now :)
SVN will remain the master. If people just want to build from source,
or study the code, they don't have to learn a new tool and simply do
things as they are used to do. The idea is that developers and
contributors use Bazaar instead of svn. Via the svn bazaar plugin we
push our changes to the svn master or synchronize back. The problem
with out current SVN repository is that, for the sake of simplicity,
we have used it to store binaries. It has grown to a big size and as
DVC systems check out the whole history, this has become a pain.
Therefore we more or less clone the existing repository to a new one,
excluding the binaries. And we change our build script to retrieve the
binaries from an external repository.
We had quite a discussion on whether to use git or bazaar. We have
decided to give bazaar a first try, not git. Russel Winder was making
the case for bazaar. And to me bazaar looks more user friendly and
high level than git. We use launchpad for hosting the different
feature branches. I hope we get a good process going for all this.
- Hans
Ilya
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Hans Dockter <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
right now we work on our svn infrastructure. Therefore you can't
get the
gradle sources from our svn repository at the moment. You should
also not
write to the gradle svn repository right now.
I will post to the list as soon as the work is done.
- Hans
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