Hi, Can I suggest having a look at GIT (http://git-scm.com). It has some mayor advantages above SVN. The most important one is that it's a distributed version control system.
Let's say Rasmus leads a team working on a new feature in PHP to switch from .ini to .yaml files for configuration. With GIT it's not needed that the whole team has commit access to the main GIT repository. Rasmus can checkout PHP to his own server. The team can checkout and commit to Rasmus' server. Rasmus still update the checkout of his server to get the changes made in the main PHP repo. When Rasmus is satisfied that the feature works, he (and only he) can commit it to the main repo. If you look at the linux kernel, you see that there is a whole hierarchy. There are lieutenants who are responsible for a certain part of the kernel. The lieutenant has got a small team working on that part. Each team member, may have a team of his own working on a specific feature. I would think a structure like this would work very nicely for PHP. - Arnold On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 18:09 -0500, Greg Beaver wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty > > easily now and thus avoid multiple similar commits with annoying MFH/MFB > > commit log messages that are hard to track. > > > > Please don't attempt to check out all of php/php-src or pecl. I made > > the mistake of checking out all of pecl and it was 3.4G because you get > > copies of the code for every tag and branch and we have a bunch. > > > > In order to do this better, I think the best way is to use the sparse > > directory feature documented here: > > > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.sparsedirs.html > > <snip> > > Rasmus this is brilliant. You should add this to the manual for > posterity in your new shiny checkout of awesomeness. > > :) > Greg -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
