On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:52:41PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > the same way as LyX svn trunk is currently treated. You can push your > > work pretty much in the same chunks as you would today. > > but the flamed point was not about _pushing_. rather it was about commit > identification and further orientation (hash vs commit number).
I got used to using 'gitk' for 'orientation'... > > _On top of that_ you _can_ have branches that are far, far easier to > > handle than svn branches. I'd even argue that (to come back on this > > Friday's topic) some of the past losses like the XML branch would > > not have occured as switching between branches is fast and cheap > > and people are more likely to "have a quick look". > > arrrgh ... branches switching is not fast and cheap! i got so frustrated > with the perpetual waiting for recompilations because somebody touch > this and that header that i started using more git trees in the same way as > in the old days of svn. *shrug* other experience then. But right, there's nothing wrong with having several full checkouts, too. [Apart from that, LyX compile times are still above average as far as I can tell] Andre'