Hello all, I have recently begun to use Git in earnest and after reading various things and starting to understand how it works I had an idea: I could manage my Haiku WebKit port using Git without ever having my code in the "real" WebKit SVN repo. The basic idea would be I would clone the current WebKit Git repo, create a branch for my Haiku port, and then publish that branch for other Haiku developers to use. This branch would never go back into the main WebKit repo. Why would I want to do this? Here is what I am thinking:
- The main WebKit repo would have one less bit of platform code that everyone else has to download, even though only a tiny percentage would care to use it (as much as I like Haiku at this point it is a very small platform.) - It would be almost impossible for other people in the WebKit community to break the Haiku WebKit build since I (or other Haiku developers) would control pulling new changes from the main repo and could ensure we fixed problems before publishing those changes to our repo. - It alleviates other WebKit maintainers from having to be concerned about breaking such a tiny port like ours because of the above point. - I could freely change my platform code without having to go through the strict WebKit review and submit process (which is good in general but maybe too heavyweight for my small port.) I might also suggest that other smaller ports (*cough* Robert, *cough*, AROS) could use this too, but obviously that is up to them. The WebKit site can provide links to these platform specific Git repos so people can make use of them if they wish. I would be curious what the WebKit community thinks about this idea. I know the Qt people have been doing this already to some extent with their Git repo and I recall this being perceived badly by some. One point I would like to make is I would intend to submit any purely WebKit-related fixes back to the main repo (which Git makes considerably easier than SVN.) So there would not be an issue of potentially "good stuff" hiding in my repo (part of what the Qt guys got flak for I believe.) Regards, Ryan _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
