Marcel Siegert schrieb: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: > --snip-- >>> svn has advantages e.g. like moving files & history.... >> What else? >> > http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html > you may have a look what other people say on different systems > and capabilities > >>> i dont like them, haven't worked that much with git but >>> i do know mercurial and that one sucks. >>> also for a developer imho it is not to known all commands >>> and different workflows of all those scm's. >> At least git is used for the kernel, so it's not just another >> scm that you have to know about :) > > and subversion is used for gcc > it that a reason to switch? > i just use git to get an actual kernel tree to test some stuff, > not to manage sources > >>> svn is nearly the same syntax as cvs, so also user could step >>> over without any rejections, just taking the advantages. >>> >>> on linuxtv.org each modification (to prevent too much conflicts) >>> should be in a seperate repository. >> It doesn't have to be like that. One main, plus optional repositories, >> e.g. the new wm branch could be its own. > it doesnt have to but it may work out to this scenario. > >>> so you have to have one repo e.g. where you develop new things, >>> one for clean to pull from, and >>> if like you have, loads of repos must be pulled, merged, ect. >>> imho that is much more work. > >> As the number of repositories I'm going to manage won't grow >> with that move it could only become simpler. > yes, in your case > >>> why do you have the need of those different distributed repos? >>> (c)opyrighted maybe nda stuff? >> No, it's for easier management. It's even to make flowing back >> to the mainline faster! :) > ok, that counts in your case. > what about the other dev's? same probs or can they cope with the current > developement > model? > > > at least i am out of this discussion now, otherwise it may evolve into an > endless > for-against thread. > > my statements in a kind of summary > - you, denis, are the maintainer of this project > - if you decide to go for git, go for it > - i dont like this idea and the idea of distributed repositories > - wait for other statements of e.g. ville, claudio, mike.... > sorry if i forgot someone
Yes, let's hear others :) I wouldn't go for git, if nobody wanted it. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
