On Saturday 28 April 2007 00:50, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > On 4/27/07, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 27 April 2007 04:52, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: > > > So what do people, especially Albert, think? Now that 302 is merged > > > (thanks Albert) we have time to do less constructive things like argue > > > about which SCM to use :) > > > > I'd prefer subversion, just because I'm already familiar with it. Not > > familiar with git, and I don't see decentralised as that big an > > advantage. > > (Apologies for yet another bad car analogy) > > I think that's a common position if you never tried git. But there's > a difference between, say, buying a car, where you can pick and choose > only the features you want because you're going to drive it, and > selecting an SCM, where you'll just be one of several developers using > the tool. To paraphrase: "we want git, too bad".
> The point I'm trying to make is that git can work in a centralized > mode just as well as svn, and if you don't care about the > decentralized features of git, just pretend they're not there. Even > if you don't need the features, there's no need to prevent others from > benefitting from disconnected commits, local history browsing, local, > cheap branches and all that. How about svn and svk. Or svn with local git tools. You can get what you want, and I can get what I want. > And just to clarify, git can be used in a number of ways. In the > kernel community everybody has his own little tree and everybody > merges back and forth. That's chaotic and confusing, and if this is > what people think of when they think about a decentralized SCM I can > understand the resistance. What we're going to do in case we move > poppler to git is to set up a central repository on > git.freedesktop.org, and everybody who now has CVS commit access will > be able to push their changes into that repository. I'm still not keen on learning another set of command line options. Is there a recommended GUI for git that I can use for the occasional work I do on poppler? Brad
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