On Sat, 29 Feb 2020, 08:11 Waldek Hebisch, <hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 03:48:43PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > ATM master sources are in svn, so diff is better than pull request. > > > > When do we switch to git? > > > > Well, some time ago I thought that I am almost ready for switch. > But then Camm Maguire wrote "fetch this special gcl branch". > Given branch name it worked, but without knowing the name > I was unable to find it in gcl git repo. saying "check out that very special commit" from svn repo does not get one far either. So either git > allows you to create invisible branches, git branch lets you list all the branches on a repo. Branch is basically a label for a well-behaved subset of commits, not much more than that. (there are also tags, something a bit different) which I consider > evil, or I my understanding of git is way below what is > needed to effectivly use it. I use git for less important > projects, so I can survive using it. But I feel that > for me to use it for FriCAS developement is still too > inefficient and risky. > one need not be forced to use github/gitlab workflows of pull/merge requests. One can instead work with named branches. -------- The bottom line is that nowadays most people either never used svn, or already forgot all about it. (yes, I did use svn for a year in 1999 a lot, and for few more years later too, a bit, but now it is a source of major annoyance if I need to use it, it's like going back to Fortran 4 or punchcards). The projects that stick to cvs or svn suffer, as cvs and svn are legacy tools, and forcing it on contributors is counterproductive. Dima > -- > Waldek Hebisch > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/20200229151147.GA12206%40math.uni.wroc.pl > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAAWYfq3RSn5z665zbcfNbBuTAZXqkm%2BohWnb7g6GdHZxTrD%3D8Q%40mail.gmail.com.
