Amarok is now on Git

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 20.07.09 11:20:47, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Bernhard Auzinger wrote:
> > not that it's important but it would be interesting for me why you guys chose 
> > git over SVN?
> > 
> > Rgds
> > Bernhard
> 
> Bernhard,
> 
> We try to keep trunk usable; however, sometimes we're working on
> features that until they're completed will massively break things. In
> this case, we like to work on these features in branches, so that we can
> keep committing and having our work stored in a public repository
> without breaking trunk.
> 
> Branches in SVN are not so useful because they require switching around
> your build to use different directories, whereas branches in Git replace
> the current working tree with the branch, making them far more easy to
> work with.

Actually svn can do that too, see svn switch. Not that I think switching to
git is bad, there quite some other things that work nicer in git than in
svn. (personally I like the commit-without-network as I'm doing quite a bit
of coding when I'm on the road and svk never worked out for me)

Andreas

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