GSoC improvements

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
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> Leo Franchi wrote:
>>> Additionally, what Ian said in another branch of this thread is
>>> probably true: Git will help here a lot.
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>> This does actually require us to be have already switched to git, and
>> as Ian said.... he needs to start working on scripty. I don't think we
>> can "assume" anything about us having git, until the work actually
>> gets done.
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> I too think that Git could be very useful to us in this regard, as we
> can easily see changesets from a student compared to master.  We can be
> using Git this summer, even if git.kde.org isn't ready.  I sent an email
> a few days ago asking for opinions and only Ian got back to me, although
> Leo got back to me earlier.  Both want open-source options (me too), so
> this means either Gitweb hosted somewhere (I can easily host it, using
> standard Git/SSH) or Gitorious.

Basically here you're talking about using git-svn. Trying to share
git-svn repos is such a hassle (impossible in my experience, unless
you're OK with having a completely separate clone for each developer,
essentially not using it as a DVCS), I really wouldn't wish that on
our poor students.

Ian