[GEM-dev] switching to git

cyrille henry ch at chnry.net
Sun Aug 28 19:45:18 CEST 2011


hello,

ok, i'll have to learn Git...
but what about the extrenal reference to Gem svn in pd externals svn?

cyrille



Le 28/08/2011 17:59, IOhannes zmölnig a écrit :
> hi all,
>
> in the last year (or so), i have changed my personal development
> workflow over the last year or so, to almost exclusively use git as the
> version control system.
> Gem development has been done in git as well, with only an occasional
> push to the SVN repository.
>
> this has somehow worked, but it left lots of things to be desired, and
> left me with a number of problems (most recently a branching/tagging
> dance for the 0.93 releases).
>
> git has a number of really nice features that i use, most prominently
> that i can commit unstable code and only push it to the main development
> branch once it is finished, but still keeping all the commit history.
> another nice feature is, that i can work at home (where i don't have
> internet) and still commit regularily.
> it's quite easy to simlutaneously try things out on multiple machines,
> without polluting the public repository.
> branching and merging is trivial.
> patches by 3rd party (e.g.: you!) can keep the full authorship and log
> information.
>
> and finding regression bugs is made super easy by tools like "git bisect".
>
> given that i am the one who writes most to the repository, i did not
> raise a real discussion about this topic but rather silently decided to
> officially switch from subversion to git.
>
>
> in the future i will try to not update the SVN anymore, and instead only
> work in git.
> if you want to track my changes (or commit yourself), please use these URLs
>
> read only:
> 	git://pd-gem.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pd-gem/Gem
> read/write
> 	ssh://USER@pd-gem.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pd-gem/Gem
>
> (with USER being your sourceforge username)
>
>
>
> i hope this is fine for everybody.
>
> gfmasdr
> IOhannes
>
>
>
>
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