[PD-dev] SVN?

[Stephen Sinclair]

I don't want to sound like I'm just trumpeting the latest hype, but
someone is going to say it, so it may as well be me:

Considering the highly distributed nature of Pd development (lots of
people with dev access working on different, independent parts), I
really think a distributed system like Git would be appropriate to the
Pd project.

Instead of committing your changes to one big repo, you just work on
your own, developing features, and you tell people when you've done
something cool, and they are free to copy it from you and merge it
into their version (or not).  It takes the politics right out of
things.  Everyone is in charge of their own work, and no one else's.

I've been playing with it a lot lately and it's really got some
advantages in how it deals with team work.  There are also lots of
scripts to help making a transition from CVS.

In any case it's not my decision, but I highly recommend checking it
out.  It works on Windows under MingW as well as OS X and Linux.

http://git.or.cz/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html

Steve


On 10/22/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> There was gung-ho talk back at PdCon about switching to SVN.  It's
> been quiet recently, any word on that? :)
>
> .hc
>
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