2008/7/2 Florent Daigni?re <nextgens at freenetproject.org>: > * Daniel Cheng <j16sdiz+freenet at gmail.com> [2008-07-02 23:21:45]: > >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com> wrote: >> > David 'Bombe' Roden wrote: >> > >> >> On Tuesday 01 July 2008 06:02:06 NextGen$ wrote: >> >> >> >>> We all agree that that merging things from branches back and forth is not >> >>> easy with svn 1.4... but it will be easier when we will upgrade to a >> >>> merge-tracking enabled version. >> >> >> >> In subversion it will always be a cludge, though, because subversion >> >> wasn't >> >> designed with repeated merges in mind. >> > >> > Have you read the svn 1.5 release notes? You'd still call it a kludge? I'm >> > honestly asking, I'd like to know from someone used to git. >> >> While I love using git, I am more interesting in DSCM then any >> specific SCM. The ability of commit locally and work offline allow me >> to test out my idea more freely. >> You know, everybody have some crazy idea that he want to test without >> letting others to see. >> For instance, I have yet another experimental database and an >> alternative location swapping code locally. >> >> A (good) side effect is the ability to work offline. >> >> Easy merge management is just a side effect of DSCM -- DSCM encourage >> branching and forking. That's why every DSCM comes with a set of good >> merging tools. > > That's my point: at this stage we don't want to encourage branching nor > forking.
The tools make this easier does not means we have to encourage it. > We need the network to be homogeneous version and bug-wise to be debuggable > and to move forward. Anyway, you can't stop me (or anybody else) from using git-svn locally (and I am using it). --
