Not sure if all the heavy git users are on infrastructure-dev... david jencks
Begin forwarded message: > From: David Blevins <[email protected]> > Date: April 3, 2011 10:17:01 PM PDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Fwd: Current use of GitHub > Reply-To: [email protected] > > 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... >> >> >> >
