Re: using git for SCM?

[Raghu Angadi]

Enis Soztutar wrote:
Hi,
I have switched to git just two days ago, and i am quite happy about it. 
Although i do not want hadoop to move to git before apache 
infrastructure have matured enough. As Linus addresses in his talk, many 
users have been using git+svn in a very innovative way. The central 
repository is managed by svn and the users checkout the code, build a 
local git repo and work from there.

This seems like very useful case. When I was working with patch for 
HADOOP-1134 that depended on (changing) patches for other jiras, I was 
working with my own local svn. That implied I could not update from 
central svn. This fixes it.

Raghu.
Personally i find it *very* 
convenient to let both svn and git manage the code. What i do is make 
git ignore svn files, and make svn ignore git files. Then i just branch 
once for every issue i work on. Committing the changes before switching 
to the other branch(issue). After I've done with the issue i get the 
patch with regular svn diff. Anyhow i am telling about this because it 
enabled me to work on several distinct issues simultaneously using the 
same code base. I highly suggest this workspace-model to anyone working 
this way.