Hi Kevan... From what I understand from Gurkan is that the GIT is just an archiving mirror to what we already have in SVN. He just wanted the community to start play with GIT. I hope I got you right Gurkan :-) .
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Kevan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -- ---- Thanks - Mohammad Nour - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein
