Re: switch to git?

2018-12-17 Thread Bryan Pendleton
Not sure about the pull request part, but here's a place to start: https://github.com/apache/derby bryan On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:21 PM Alex O'Ree wrote: > > Which merge tool is good in your opinion? I've used the tortoise products > with good results > > Also, if mirroring to github is

Re: switch to git?

2018-12-17 Thread Alex O'Ree
Which merge tool is good in your opinion? I've used the tortoise products with good results Also, if mirroring to github is enabled for this project and you can accept PRs from it, then this is a moot conversation. On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 8:34 PM Rick Hillegas wrote: > I appreciate your

Re: switch to git?

2018-12-17 Thread Rick Hillegas
I appreciate your willingness to contribute. Nevertheless, I think that * git is a poor fit for Derby's culture of incremental development and is, instead, better suited to large projects where teams work in isolation from one another on large contributions * git has the worst merge tool I

Re: switch to git?

2018-12-17 Thread Bryan Pendleton
I thought we already had a git mirror for the svn repo for Derby. I thought Knut Anders already used it quite successfully for his contributions. Perhaps he will respond to this email with more details? If not, I can probably search the archives. bryan On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 4:20 PM Alex

Re: switch to git?

2018-12-17 Thread Alex O'Ree
I wasn't at first either. It seems unnecessary at a glance. It does greatly simplify accepting contributions from users without commit rights. For outside committers, they can commit as much as they need to without affecting the baseline. Which makes things much easier for larger tasks. Pull

Re: switch to git?

2018-12-17 Thread Rick Hillegas
On 12/16/18 4:16 PM, Alex O'Ree wrote: Has anyone suggested switching to git? ASF makes the change pretty painless I'm not a git enthusiast.