SVN closed for commits and Basic Git Groundrules

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Jeff Mitchell<mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 19, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Jeff Mitchell<mitchell at kde.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> As of r999404, SVN is closed for commits on extragear/multimedia/
>>> amarok.
>>> Read-only.
>>>
>>> Thiago is currently doing an rsync and will attempt the conversion.
>>> If
>>> it fails he'll have to do it tomorrow; in this case I'll ask toma to
>>> remove the read-only restriction until then and will let you all
>>> know.
>>>
>>> I want to lay out a couple ground rules for our Git repo on
>>> Gitorious:
>>>
>>> 1) Never, ever create a branch in our mainline repo. Ever. You can
>>> do it
>>> locally, but do *not* push it up.
>>
>> Have you tried to create a branch? I did, I don't think its possible.
>
> You can, yes. At least, I have on other Gitorious projects and Thiago
> implied it was a social control, not a technical one.

Projects with the "disable push -f" checkbox checked?

>>
>> Stop making git sound so scary. :)
>
> Ok, sorry. Used to a more traditional Gitorious workflow instead of
> the SVN-alike model we'll be using :-) Those guidelines should be used
> for outside contributors though.

Ah ok.

Ian