[Kde-scm-interest] SVN closed for commits and Basic Git Groundrules

Bart Cerneels bart.cerneels at kde.org
Tue Jul 21 12:43:18 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Riccardo Iaconelli<riccardo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday 20 July 2009 10:49:24 Bart Cerneels wrote:
>> > 1) Never, ever create a branch in our mainline repo. Ever. You can do it
>> > locally, but do not push it up.
>> > 2) Clone the repo and work on that. Add mainline as a remote branch in
>> > your local copy of your cloned repo.
>
> Hmm... I'm a bit scared of using this approach, where you don't share the work
> directly in the mainline repo, but instead work on your own clones. I mean,
> while being very git-ish, aren't we losing here the social model that we all
> love so much about KDE, and that everyone fears to loose when switching away
> from SVN?
>
It looks like we'll be using a more SVN like method where the core
dev's push directly to Mainline. These instructions are really only
for patch submitters and such. Or where the code requires review.

Bart


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