Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Get Git or Stay with SVN?

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Glyn Matthews <gly...@gm...> wrote:
> Dean,
>
> 2009/3/4 Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Glyn Matthews <gly...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm interested but I don't know a lot about Git.  Could you give a list
>> > of
>> > advantages?
>> >
>>
>> One of the advantages is local commits -- or offline commits -- which
>> allows for disconnected development.
>>
>> Another is the distributed aspect which allows everyone to have a copy
>> of the *repository* not just the local copy of the source. So you can
>> switch between branches, merge changes easily between and across
>> branches, etc.
>>
>> Yet another is an easy means for developing a release tar-ball with
>> the correct changelog from commit messages. :-)
>
> Sounds good, but I don't think its enough on its own to change the
> repository.
>

Yeah, now that I think about it more, I agree. :-)

>>
>> I'm personally using git-svn now with another project, and I'm trying
>> out git-svn to develop cpp-netlib further -- I'm thinking of merging
>> John's work into the http_integration branch -- and seeing whether I
>> can continue his work to support persistent connections and what not.
>
> Oooh it sounds like progress.  Also, don't forget there is some useful URI
> code gathering dust that should be merged into trunk.
>

Oh yes. I'm also thinking of picking it up and adding more tests to it
before I merge to http_integration and then into trunk. I want the
request object constructor to take a uri object that's constructed
(implicitly) from a string or char const *. Hopefully it won't be as
hard as I think it would be. ;-)

>>
>> So if we can stay with svn at Subversion, I don't mind but I
>> personally like developing on a Git repository from my VM. ;-)
>
>
> Even if we don't use it for this project, it might make an useful blog post
> ;)
>

Yeah. :-) I might write it one day when I get more into the groove of
doing it better. ;-)

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