KDE development with git

[Thiago Macieira]

Tim Beaulen wrote:
>On 7/11/07, Paolo Capriotti <p.capriotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Git encourages a development model where many branches are created,
>> features are developed out of the main line, and then merged back to
>> the master branch. This is something which is hardly possible with svn
>> (and impossible, if one wants to keep some of the branches private),
>> but IMHO highly desirable for many KDE projects.
>
>And if I remember it correctly, this was one of the main reasons for
>the switch from cvs to svn.
>
>I don't understand the "hardly possible" bit as it is very easy to
>create branches and merge them back. In fact, this is done a lot in
>KDE.

True, but with git it's easier (if you understand the tool, that is).

Anyways, we don't care about private branches.

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