On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Mark Struberg wrote:
Hi!
The Apache Infrastructure Team offers the possibility to mirror the
SVN archive to a GIT repo.
I just like to ask if anyone (besides me) is interested in using git
for sharing experimental features which are not elaborated enough
for being checked in to SVN?
If anyone has heard about git, but doesn't have a glue what's behind
the development model used with git then you should look at the
following google speech from Linus Torvalds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
To state this clear: this is _not_ about using GIT instead of SVN,
but only _additionally_ to share immature features.
Hi Mark,
So, I confess that I'm not much of a GIT user. I know that there is
growing interest in GIT within the ASF and that there are multiple ASF
projects which are using GIT, in some form. I don't, however, know how
these projects are using GIT.
I know that it's possible to use GIT in a private mode. Using GIT on
their local machines, creating private branches, making local changes,
etc, then committing their changes to SVN. I see absolutely no problem
with this type of usage of GIT.
However, you are implying that we could use GIT as a means for sharing
non-committed code among project members. I have some concerns about
this. This could become a form of non-public communication among
project members. Non-GIT users would not be able to participate in
these "communications". This may be very GIT-like usage. However, it's
potentially very un-ASF-like communication.
I don't know enough to evaluate the validity of my concerns without
doing some more research. If you, or anyone else, know specifics about
how other ASF projects are using GIT, that would be helpful...
--kevan
