[PD-dev] SVN?

Chris McCormick chris at mccormick.cx
Thu Oct 25 04:18:21 CEST 2007


On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:27:15PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> It sounds to me like the best system is SVN as the core repository,  
> then people can use git if they want, and sync it to SVN.  Miller  
> currently does this with Git->CVS.

So wait, Miller is currently using Git? It seems to me that that is a
major pro in favour of other developers using Git. The big issue with Pd
development (apart from some slightly sharp personalities sometimes) is
with:

a) Miller not accepting people's patches, often without giving a reason.
b) People finding it difficult to merge Miller's monolithic changes
(e.g. what Tim had to do with the devel branches).

Surely if more people were also using git it would make both of those
issues moot since Miller could more easily pull the patches he wanted
and people could more easily merge Miller's changes.

On the other hand it might change nothing and everyone will continue to
refuse to merge good patches and fork eachothers code bases. Maybe it
has more to do with license issues, such as most developers releasing
source under the GPL whilst Miller releases under the BSD? I would love
to hear some comments from Miller about this, especially if he's
publishing his Git repository somewhere.

Best,

Chris.

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