KDE development with git

[Maurizio Monge]

Looks like that you (you all?) did not understand what Paolo was asking.
Paolo stated *very clearly* that he was not asking a switch to git but
just *some support* for projects that would like to use git and still
being part of the KDE project.
For instance being able to register a git repository on kde.org would
be a very good step in this direction (consider also that git does not
even require a "git" server, http or ssh will just do!).
I really don't understand your accept_or_die policy, if a project
would like to use a different VCS i think that no *very good reason*
is required.
Considering that KDE has the very liberal policy "you have write
access for almost everything" (an i'm happy of it), i don't understand
why you should impose "but you must use SVN!!!"
:)

On 7/11/07, Luciano Montanaro <mikelima at cirulla.net> wrote:
> On mercoledì 11 luglio 2007, 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.
>
> Well, it's easy to create branches, as you say, but merging is more or less
> the same as in CVS, that is, quite painful, when you want to merge stuff
> more than once.
>
> At least, until SVN gets the merge tracking feature (planned for SVN 1.5;
> how far will it be?).
>
> Anyway, the switch to SVN has been an improvement over CVS, but has not been
> completely painless; switching to something else would need very good
> reasons, in my opinion (Sorry, Paolo!).
>
> Luciano
>
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