I see the point ;). On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Radek Polak <pson...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Fabio Locati wrote: > >> I see :) >> It would be really cool if there would be only one repository with >> different branches :) (and maybe a little bit more clear for the n00bs >> like me ;)) > > No it wouldnt be very good. That's the reason why Linux kernel uses GIT > and not SVN. Just check this page: > > http://git.kernel.org/ > > these are all branches for one single project - linux kernel. It's how > GIT works. If there was one central repository then we would need to > agree witch patches can go in and people would break others work. Now > i just see that person XXX fixed problem YYY and i will merge this to > my tree. And if i trust that person i will merge his whole tree. > > And with github it's really easy to check what everybody did. Check e.g. > > http://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/network > > You can see how people are branching your tree and that they do changes. > And you can pull their changes back to your tree. So this is coordinated > effort and it's very different from times when branching meant forking > the project (mainly because of disputes between developers). > > Radek > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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