to add to that, another good reason is when the FOSS project you are working on decides to switch to (or already is on) git.
drupal is switching in februari. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Monday 08 November 2010 17:51:44 Tim Schofield wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > The first thing for you to decide is whether Git is really what you > need. It sounds like you are trying to squeeze a distributed version > control system into a centralised development process. If this is so, > then you should really consider using a centralised version control > system such as svn. > > As with previous discussions on this list about which CMS is best, > which code editor is best, the truth is it is about picking the tool > that best helps you to do the job that you want to do at that time. > > Distributed version control is great if you are working in a > distributed development process. Think of the linux kernel. Where is > the central repository, Linus' tree?, Amdrew Morton's 2.6 tree?, Greg > Kroah-Hartman's stable kernel tree? The fact is that there isn't a > centralised tree, hence the need for a distributed version control > system. > > Its also very useful if members of your team spend a lot of time not > connected to the central repository, so they can make commits to their > local tree and then push them up to the centre later. > > HTH > Tim > > On 8 November 2010 13:24, Okalany Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to understand how to use git while doing team development. > > I've used git while doing solo development, but if it needs to be more > > than a one developer, is there a workflow/precautions other developers > > have to take? E.g. If I pushed something to the "central" repository, > > after one of the developers had already checkout, will they have to pull > > before pushing? Any other info is welcome. > > > > Daniel. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > > way. ---------------------------------------
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