On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Kevan Miller wrote:
There are some usages of GIT that would not fit well into an
Apache project. For instance, I would not want to see project
members using GIT as a private means of sharing code updates.
Ultimately, code needs to get into our svn repo -- that's where we
should be sharing code.
Why do you have a problem with users sharing code via their own GIT
repos? I guess I can kinda see your concern, but I'd expect folks
with significant changes to the codebase to want to share their GIT
repos with others *before* pushing those changes back into SVN.
Right. So, I wouldn't want a few people to decide to implement some
new function, start sharing code (privately amongst themselves), and
then dump it into svn. IIUC, GIT makes this pretty easy to do.
Currently, this sort of activity would happen in an svn sandbox or
via patches posted to a Jira. In either case the collaboration and
work should be public. I want to make sure we maintain this.
Jay's example of a security-related patch is a very compelling example
as to why sharing code directly via GIT instead of SVN can be a good
idea at times.
Until *everyone* is using GIT and we have community policies
governing its usage, svn and our mailing lists are where we need to
be collaborating.
Why does *everyone* need to use GIT? IMO it is just a tool, some
folks might prefer BZR, HG or SVK, making use of the features/
advantages that each tool provides. I don't see why there would ever
need to be a point where *everyone* is on the same tool since ATM the
underlying authoritative and definitive location for the codebase is
the ASF SVN.
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I really don't see what the harm is that you seem worried about. I'm
not sure that we need any "policies governing its usage" either, no
more than we need guidelines on how some one uses /bin/vi or
notepad.exe, unless you mean the content not the tool, and in that
case I think the general docs we have on that is sufficient.
IMO GIT allows for a much more flexible development model, and I
really don't see why we'd want to take away that flexibly with tape
(of the red kind).
:-\
--jason
