> There are a number of ways to share your branches with others.  At
> least you can do it by pushing your local changesets to some remote
> repository.  I've actually been experimenting with modified PHP core
> with some language features added by forking the mirror on github.com
> [1].  I've never felt any inconvenience there.  I really appreciate
> those who set up the mirror.

Yes, this is possible, but in my experience branch sharing quickly
falls apart in practice.  If I make some change to foo.c, push it to
your branch and then later on do a rebase to update from svn I just
rewrote history.  The commit hash you have for foo.c is now different
than mine.  Now sure you can also rebase, but what if you are away?  I
am stuck until you return.  Or what if you have a commit to foo.c that
is made after my commit, but updating from svn creates a conflict you
need to resolve?  You then again rewrite history and now I have to
sync back up.  And good luck if one of us cherry-picks.

I think git svn does a great job for individuals working solo on a
project, but for me it starts to become too tedious when groups of
people are passing around branches.  Or maybe I am just doing it all
wrong?

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Herman Radtke
hermanrad...@gmail.com | http://hermanradtke.com

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