On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jan 29, 2011, at 00:07, Larry Gilbert wrote: > >> Is the use of Git for committing changes to Subversion approved, and if so, >> are there any guidelines or tips for doing so? >> >> I have prior experience using Git to work with a different Subversion >> repository, so I know the general method. I just want to know about the >> idiosyncrasies here (if they exist). > > I seem to recall that the developers of git feel that keyword expansion in > source files is the work of the devil, and do not support it. Meanwhile, > Subversion does support it, and we use it in our files. It is the > responsibility of a Subversion client to normalize the keywords before > sending the file to the repository, and it is my recollection that when using > git as a client for a Subversion repository, it does not normalize the > keywords. That was some time ago so they may have fixed it. And it's probably > not the end of the world if they haven't. I think we had one other developer > here before using git for our repository, but I don't recall who it was.
I use git-svn as a svn client quite often, but it doesn't get the keywords right and they'll be clobbered. Blair _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
