On Fri, August 17, 2007 1:27 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote:

> Um... you still need a definitive release authority.

> But once you get more than one person acting as the release authority,
> you'd be back where you started, no?

The Linus networking subgroup leader has authority over their local trunk.
The ARM subgroup likewise and on and on.  Up the chain of command people
pull from the trunks below them.  Linus has release authority.  Git
doesn't change that.  It just avoids the problem of Linus and others
having to grant and decide access for certain people.

> A remote repository is a *good* thing.

If your remote Subversion server crashes, all you got left is your latest
checkout without the full history unless you rsync'd a copy of the server
repository to your laptop.  Git combines both of these errands into one.  
Less work.

> Multiple parallel trunks seem problematic.

I wonder if this is mainly because our brains have been doing centralized
SCM for so long.   Hey I'm skeptical too but Linus says it "just works".

Chris


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