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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Cc: "Andy Wingo" <wingo@pobox.com>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Switching to Git?
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:28:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D074CC.2080503@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11969026.1187733389365.JavaMail.root@web21>

dsmich@adelphia.net escreveu:
> If there must be a switch, I'd also say that subversion is probably the best way to go. 
> Less culture shock for long time cvs users.  Windows people aren't left out.  Guile doesn't
> really need the massively distributed model that the Linux kernel requires.

Actually, try this for a data point:

 git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
 cd lilypond; gitk

what you will see is the history of LilyPond, which is not massively distributed
by any standard. If you press page down a couple of time, you will see 'parallel'
development and merging of several topics, eg.

 - Spacing features by Joe Neeman
 - Release fixes by me
 - translation updates by John Mandereau and helpers
 - doc updates by Graham Percival and helpers

these all happen in parallel. In particular, I am the release coordinator,
and I always make releases which are effectively branches. This means that 
I can make small fixes (eg. a make dist failure) to build a release locally
and merge them back into the repository HEAD later. My releases are 
not inconvenienced by large hacks that are pushed to the HEAD. 


-- 
 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen



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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-25 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-21 21:56 Switching to Git? dsmich
2007-08-25 18:28 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-20 21:45 Ludovic Courtès
2007-08-20 23:49 ` Kevin Ryde
     [not found]   ` <87d4xgyq28.fsf@laas.fr>
2007-08-22  8:14     ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-08-22 13:53     ` Dan McMahill
2007-08-25 18:08   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-08-21 14:09 ` Greg Troxel
2007-08-25 17:59   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-08-21 19:17 ` Dan McMahill
2007-08-25 18:14   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-08-21 21:23 ` Andy Wingo
2007-08-22  2:17   ` Cesar Strauss
2007-08-25 18:04   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-08-25 18:11 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-09-03  0:31 ` Rob Browning

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