On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:59:11 +0800 Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:11:43 +0200 > Enrico Tröger <enrico.troe...@uvena.de> wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:30:24 +0200, Jiří wrote: > > > > > > > This choice will also influence the workflow in which you will use > > > git. If contributors cannot have their branches hosted easily, > > > then the the Linus model (one pusher pulling from contributors) > > > will be harder to realize. > > > > I doubt we want that. > > Who should be "our Linus"? > > I can't do that and I guess Nick also not. And I also don't see any > > advantage for Geany with such a scenario. > > > > I'd rather keep the existing way of committing: a couple of people > > have write access to trunk (or then master). They commit their > > changes and patches and whatever. > > > > > > Regards, > > Enrico > > > > Then let's not go the Linus route. We can always adopt a working model > as follows, which I've attempted to translate from the svn workflow as > best as I can: > > We host Geany (git) on sourceforge.net. Developers who have push > access (i.e. the ones who currently have commit access to svn) can > push new commits there. > > Contributors:- > 1. Clone the git repository from sourceforge.net > 2. Do their work locally, and produce commits of the fixes/new > features they implement. > 3. They then submit these back to you via: > * Mailing list: git format-patch can generate patches formatted > properly for this purpose. > * Remotely hosted branches: gitorious.org/github.com can be very > useful for these, no matter how much you hate them. It'd be worth > having a mirror of Geany on gitorious.org/github.com to allow for > users to perform remote-cloning and pushing of new commits, so > that you can either rebase or merge these back into the main tree > hosted at sourceforge.net. This is correct, but I don't see any advantage of using git/bzr, mercural, bitkeeper or whatever in favor of subversion of doing this. Thanks, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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