On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:16:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Merging is generally not needed by me, but that may be the reason Armin > wants to move to git. I can't remember the last time I needed to do a > merge. >
My back story : I used to contribute to CLFS, but I dropped out when it went to git beccause at that stage i only knew enough to break things. Since then, I've moved my own buildscripts to git. I've broken things a couple of times in my own merges, but now I feel fairly confident in using it. For me, git merge --no-ff -m "some message" lets me put a message in my git log (probably not relevant ot LFS/BLFS), and when merges fail (e.g. because I put a fix in my master branch, then later put a better fix in my development branch), "git status ; git diff file-with-problem"shows what needs to be fixed. The great benefit of git is in branches - in svn, a branch is "cast in stone" and is a PITA. In git, branches are just pointers. If you want to maintain a stable branch, you can cherry-pick specific commits from another branch (such as master). To do that on LFS or BLFS, I suspect that things might work better if date changes in general.ent were separated from other changes - I think CLFS has usually done that. There have been at least two occasions in the past when I've thought about branching BLFS, but in svn it didn't seem worth the pain. As has been said, with git you can stash changes, work on fixing something else, and then go back to them. That is often a great benefit. The big benefit of svn is increasing decimal revision numbers. Mercurial seems to provide that (as well as hashed commit numbers), but I cannot see any reason to move to mercurial. When CLFS changed to git, it appeared that a "gatekeeper" was needed to pull changes, but freedesktop.org, or at least the xorg parts, appear to have many people commiting to the master branches. I understand why alfs is a good place to try out changes, but it isn't something I can use (/sources on my development machines is an nfs mount from my server, I _really_ don't fancy the time it would take to build there). Also, I think Igor has an svn->git feed to github ? I would welcome his comments. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
