The benefit of SVN's excellent diff and merge tools are significant, especially when working with the large initial patch files this effort would require. Once most of the code is in SVN, the individual patches become smaller, much more targeted and merging them is much more manageable.
Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [jira] Updated: (MAHOUT-16) Hama contrib package for the > mahout > > > On Mar 12, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Jeff Eastman wrote: > > > Gee, I think SVN can grant permissions on a branch basis. This must > > be an > > Apache commit policy. Creating and integrating patches against a > > branch is > > much preferable to diff-diffing. If we had a feature branch, any one > > of the > > committers could commit the various branch patches, presumably > > without as > > much due diligence as required for a trunk commit. > > > > Yeah SVN can do it, but everyone would need to have committer status. > Even w/ the branch, you still have the same problem of managing all > the patches against the branch assuming there are others working on it > who are non-committers.
