Re: [Gramps-devel] Using SVN and Ubuntu One

[Nick H. <nic...@ho...>]

On 31/10/13 14:18, Benny Malengier wrote:
> 1/ If all core developers use the svn to git bridge, then git should 
> be the official way.

More and more developers will start using git when they see the power of it.


> Too many things will start to happen outside of the official repo, 
> with no history visible in the official repo. That is bad, and we 
> should avoid it at all cost! Think eg a gep branch. Eg, nick already 
> indicated squashing commits. He does that outside of the main repo.

Yes.  I try to avoid svn branches unless I have to use them.  The result 
is large patches which lack history.


> For a larger feature implementation, I would find that highly 
> annoying. I would need to be able to rely on finding Nicks git fork, 
> hope the branch is around, and go through history there, to see if I 
> can understand why a change was done.

I don't push my work to a public git repository.


> It's better if development was in a branch of the official repo which 
> Nick forked, and squashing commits only happens to merge in trunk.
>

I agree, and git branches are a good way to handle this.


Nick.