Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Braches was Re: Pivotal Decision:...

[Heikki J. J. <hj...@gm...>]

2009/8/25 Chris Cannam <ca...@al...>

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Heikki Johannes Junes<hj...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > I do not want to commit if the code does not work properly. That is a
> dilemma.
>
> That is the nub of the problem, but I'm not sure that the right answer
> is (effectively) to make it easier for people not to commit publicly
> at all.


It is the right answer for me. So, it is not the wrong answer.


>  Surely, the right answer is somehow to get people to be more
> relaxed about publishing "provisionally" their work into a branch even
> if they are not yet happy with it.
>

My answer for this problem is to start using git, or hg.

If you really feel a strong need to make local commits, why not just
> run a local git repo and use git-svn to commit from it to the central
> repository?  It's a well enough established method.


That's true. It is a working method. Although it is a bit lame, because
you replace partly svn with git, because svn is fundamentally broken
in this sense. Anyway, I try to experiment also git-svn.

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Heikki