On 06/08/2010 05:42 PM, H.J. Lu wrote: >> Think about mercurial or git. Every one can commit on his/her own >> local repository, and "publish" his/her repository. [...] > > git is an excellent tool to create and share patches. Maybe we should > have an open gcc git mirror with gitweb and every contributor can create > his/her own branches and publish them.
Well, we do: Goto http://repo.or.cz/w/official-gcc.git and click on "fork". I do like Git, but Git seems to make mostly sense if you have a small project on which you are working. If you have only a small patch (or a collection of small and unrelated patches), it won't help much. Additionally, I do not think that pulling from a branch will happen - rather that one creates patches from an (published or unpublished) git repository and submits them like normal. Thus, I do not think it helps with patch reviewing/tracking, though I believe it helps with developing patches. Tobias, who happily uses his private GCC git repository, which does not diverge much from the git master.
